Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Creation Gives God Thanks for Us,
Even If We Forget
To Thank God
for Everything
Psalm 40:17
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.
Acts 2:46-47
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Words of Grace For Today
That the Lord takes thought of any of us is … well it is no less than incomprehensible. More so when we consider all that God provides to us. These are not what we call ‘success’ or ‘accomplishments’ in life. The wonders that God does for us are simple: God gives us life, breath, minds that think, and hearts that can love (or hate if we choose to waste life.)
There is not a single one of us humans who can do anything before we are born to deserve such gifts. Nor can we do anything to deserve these gifts after we are born.
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And then we screw up the ‘paradise of Eden’ with our selfish greed, deceptions, and lusts so badly that we put life on the skids for ourselves and so many people around us.
What is God to do with us then?
We, for sure, each in our own way, perhaps not so reverently or faithfully, pray that God will come and save us from ourselves. We pray do not delay, for we understand the accumulative destructiveness of our sins for those around us and for ourselves … and we know we cannot survive our own mess indefinitely.
Yet …
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Yet …
God forgives us, gives us renewed life, breath, minds that can think and hearts that can love unconditionally again.
What are we to do other than eat the bread God provides for us with glad and generous hearts?
Wonders of wonders, God is with us, yet again … and then we sin and screw it all up and …
God forgives us, gives us renewed life, breath, minds that can think and hearts that can love unconditionally again.
And we screw it up again and …
God always walks with us and after each sin God forgives us, gives us renewed life, breath, minds that can think and hearts that can love unconditionally again.