Friday, March 4, 2022
It is one thing to have the time of age lean in on one, as death looms.
It is an entirely other thing to have other people work to advance the arrival of one’s death.
God save us from such people.
Psalm 141:8
My eyes are turned towards you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenceless.
John 14:19
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.
Words of Grace For Today
Lots of people are dying from ‘natural’ causes, some of the ‘natural’ causes are induced by other people, so the causes are not that natural, rather homicidal. Lots of other people are trying to kill even more people, forget about inducing natural causes, these efforts run the gamut from open violence to secretive schemes, and all of them are the work of the Devil and people cooperating with the Devil. Lots of people will die because others are trying to kill them. Lots of people die because of the Devil and his followers.
That’s the way with humans. It’s terrible. It’s worse if you are one of the people induced or openly or secretively sought to be killed by others, the Devil’s sacrifices in an attempt to supplant God’s rule over all creation and all beyond the universe we know or imagine.
So we, the people who others seek to kill … we pray: My eyes are turned towards you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenceless.
We trust, no matter whether we live or whether we die, whether by natural or very not natural causes, we live and we die with Christ at our side.
As Jesus lives, even though Rome crucified him at the behest of his own religions leaders, so also we, no matter who seeks our deaths or how, we too shall live, and not just another day or week or year, but for all eternity.
The truths that guided our living will live into eternity.
The lies told by those that seek to kill us, will be remembered as lies for all of eternity.
We are not defenceless, though we die. For our God is our rock and our shield, a mighty fortress against all the works of the Devil.
So we sing: In Him there is no darkness at all, The night and the day are both alike.
And
Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen, erwarten wir getrost, was kommen mag.
Gott ist bei uns am Abend und am Morgen und ganz gewiß an jedem neuen Tag.
(Sheltered wonderfully by God’s loving powers We look forward confidently to what may come.
God is with us in the evening and in the morning and surely on every new day.)