Where Many Have Gone Before
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
We May See Only A Faint Track,
But Many Saints
Have Gone Before Us.
Zephaniah 3:15
The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
2 Timothy 1:7
for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
Words of Grace For Today
When God takes God’s judgments away from us, turning away our enemies that ‘howl at the door’ for our demise, and
God walks with us each day, no matter the challenges we face, nor the taunts from our enemies,
Not only then do we need not fear disaster, we are free to imagine and work each day towards the day when we and our neighbours will live lives abundant with blessings.
Of course, we’ve been living lives blessed by God all along. It’s just under attack by our enemies and so close to death as we have been forced to walk for years, it is nearly impossible to always remember God’s blessings, and to be those who put cowardice behind us. Even so, for years we’ve not forgotten that God walks with us, for God makes God’s self visible and tangible in so many and various ways.
So that our spirits have never faltered from the power of weakness in love and self-discipline.
Now as the rains begin to fall, bringing life from the earth once again, after a long, cold, snowy winter, we see new opportunities for the months ahead, opportunities to bring life abundant to more and more people
with a word of grace.
As the day begins, what direction will you take, towards God’s blessings for yourself, or from God’s blessings towards others’ in need?
Enjoy and trust the freedom God’s presence in your midst provides. Be bold to go where so many saints have gone before.