Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Even as the Sun Sets
and Life’s End Nears,
Jesus Offers to Everyone
Peace
for All Our Troubled Waters
Isaiah 28:29
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Ephesians 2:17
So Jesus came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
Words of Grace For Today
While the world (that’s all of us) gauges and categorizes different people for different receptions, different responses, and different levels of care, those most in need are all too often left to fend for themselves.
God does not deal with us this way. God hears the cries of all in need and responds with most excellent wisdom (not which furthers the unjust powers of this world – that’s all of us) but a wisdoem which serves God’s most precious, life-giving love.
God sends Jesus and with God’s own voice he proclaims peace to all, those near and those far off. All receive the offer of peace and the promise of peace.
How counter to the world’s systems, protocols, rules, and ethics! God provides to all without distinction. That might just expand our minds to think about the most needy in our neighbourhoods, the wealthiest in our neighbourhoods, and the most lost in the middle in our neighbourhoods.
‘How are you?’ is a simple phrase, too often a throw-away. Yet, God gives us the ability to ask it of all our neighbours with the most precious love.
After nearly a week taken for recovery of health and renewal of strength, even for me God offers:
Whatever troubles our hearts (and there seems to be no end to the possibilities; and as we grow older they seem to multiple geometrically) Jesus’ Word offers and promises peace.
Breathe.
Let that peace permeate all the worries of this day, all the efforts of this day, and all our accomplishments of this day.