Begging Day
Monday, June 12, 2023
With the Heat Above 30⁰ Now For Days
Remembering -38⁰ Doesn’t Help.
Begging God for Deliverance Does.
(It motivates us to chill. A little heat is nothing compared to the heat, smoke, drought, floods, storms, and disasters of all kinds, which others suffer already, and we may well suffer soon enough.)
Psalm 25:18
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Luke 15:7
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Words of Grace For Today
Hah!
I’d like to meet even one of those 99 people who do not need repentance!
…
Of course I’d like more to see one of those 99 in the mirror each morning, noon, and night.
But it just ain’t so for me.
Nor for any other living human being, or for any now dead, when they were still alive (since after we die, it’s too late for repentance.)
What is wonderful is that there is great joy in heaven when we do repent.
So today, call it Buss und Bet Tag, (day of repentance and prayer)
In our prayers and repentance we can beg God for mercy, for Christ promises us God will be gracious with us
again
and again
and again
always.