What Is Most Important
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
If We Make Our Own Way,
Everything Becomes an Obstacle.
God Would Carry Us Through It All,
Focused Instead On Giving Life to Others.
Psalms 103:14
For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.
2 Corinthians 4:10
[we] … always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.
Words of Grace For Today
If one is confused about who one is then one can carry so much with one each day (baggage, sins, dreams, memories) that do one no good at all.
Take Kurt or Jane or Kjeet or Norique, all who earned more than $500k a year, and sometimes with bonuses netted over $1million. Each ‘earned’ their salaries by taking from others, one on the stock markets, one as a corrupt lawyer, and one as a drug dealer with a day job of librarian, who loved to gamble just a lot too much. The last one had lied constantly to the children, the police and the courts, in order to get ahead by destroying others who seemed to be in the way forward. It was all a delusion, but the results were devastating to everyone. All four ignored the destruction that they left in their wakes, and consequently they carried all that destruction as baggage into each day.
Then there was Rolf, Srijet, Olaf, and May. They were all so poor each day was a struggle to survive. Two were homeless. One lived in the bush. The other couch surfed, from friend to friend, then changed cities and repeated it until there were no friends not ‘visited’ and then the cities-friends were repeated.
Not one of them was happy. All worked each day to have yet more money, thinking that would make them happy. Such thinking was at best mere futile wishes. At worst, through neglect, it destroyed others and themselves, for not one of them gave any attention to the other people around them who struggled just as hard to survive. Their selfish drives to get more for themselves drove them deeper and deeper from anything like life that God created them to enjoy.
Knowing one is made from dust and born of God’s Spirit one can choose well, though not perfectly, what one carries into each day.
We all know the saints, who regardless of their circumstances, turn their focus each day to helping others find the true meaning of life.
Are we one of these saints?
What will our day look like today?
Are we aware we are dust, carried in blessings and glory abundant by God’s grace alone so that we have more than enough to share with all people in need?
When we live, by grace alone aware that Jesus’ died for our bodies, minds and souls (along with everyone else who has or ever will live), with the marks of Christ’s death freeing us from anxiety about our own deaths, and our own lives, THEN our bodies, lives, minds, and time will reflect the glory of Christ resurrected to save us all, by the power of love’s apparent weakness.
It is simply like dust made alive with breath: a miracle each day.