Thursday, July 21, 2022
Remember Simple Tornadoes
and God’s Promise;
Listen Up!
Be Alert!
Ezekiel 6:62-63
I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, in order that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
Words of Grace For Today
God establishes a covenant with us, since ages ago.
God does this so that we may remember all our sins, and then be confounded and shamed into silence, awestruck at what God does for us, forgiving us all our sins.
Does God forgive us our attack on the planet which is responding with extreme weather, in a phrase climate change?
There are numerous people caught in worldly grief for all that we now suffer across the angry planet as a result of our huge contributions to climate change. It does no good. It brings us close to, and into death.
What God provides is a reminder of our true sins, true repentance, and all sorts of ways to change what lays ahead of us in the next decade, in the next half century and all time after (if we survive as a species that long!) God’s promises are trustworthy; those baptized will see their salvation, and be welcomed home to new life after leaving this life on this planet. Salvation is not the question. Our species survival as well as the survival of life on earth are very much in question.
So what shall we do this day?
We shall pray for the Holy Spirit to continue to guide us that what we do will be according to God’s will and love for all people and all creation.
We shall get busy listening to the Holy Spirit, doing what we can to reduce if not remove our carbon footprint from our lives on this good earth, and bringing God’s mercy, love and hope to other people … so that more and more people will listen
to
God’s
Good Word
and live, guided by the Holy Spirit!