Saturday, March 19, 2022
Head for the Light?!?
It’s Not the Light at the End of the Tunnel (a train coming at us!)
It’s a Full Moon Setting at Dawn.
Jonah 2:7
As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
2 Timothy 2:19
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: ‘The Lord knows those who are his’, and, ‘Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.’
Words of Grace For Today
Of course, it is a common story: A person has had no place for God in their life …
until …
until everything goes wrong …
health-wise …
and …
death comes knocking.
Suddenly everything is about ‘God’ …
And ‘God blessing and saving the person who has ignored God lifelong!’
…
The old thought always comes back: the way one lives lifelong has to mean something in the end, right. So there really is not last minute salvation. There really is no last hour baptism to guarantee one’s salvation. We are judged by God by our full record!
That’s right, isn’t it? It has to be! Otherwise why did I try so hard to do the right things all my life, giving up all the opportunities that would have benefited me greatly though they would have compromised my soul!?
Ah, were it so simple, so that we could judge who is God’s and who is not God’s; who has been good enough, and who has not been good enough.
Or rather, thank God it is not so simple, so that humans can actually judge each other … because, well, humans have a really bad track record of getting everything wrong and really messing things up, royally!
What we can trust fully is that God knows! God knows who are God’s and who are not.
By Grace God gives those who are not, another breath, and another, and another ad nauseam, all so that they have another and another, and another ad nauseam opportunity to repent and convert, and to learn what we who are God’s have learned and relearn again and again, namely that
We are saved only by God’s Grace (God’s choice) through faith (given to us as a free gift, though we do not deserve it at all.)
So we go into each new day, boldly going where all humans have gone before, into the fray of returning lies with truth, hate with love, despair with hope … as God makes us able.
The Same Moon Casting (Faint) Shadows