That Rot, Trying to Earn God’s Good Graces
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Among the Weeds, See the Beauty?
Around the Beauty, See the Weeds and Thorns?
Amid All That is Life, See God’s
Generous Gifts!
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Hebrews 6:12
… so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Words of Grace For Today
In the Kingdom of God there must be rewards.
There is so much written and spoken about how we are rewarded for our good works and our good work for others.
Ahh, there is the rub.
It’s all an illusion.
We are nor rewarded by how we live or do or think or believe.
The causation direction is all messed when we talk about how we earn our reward from God.
God rewards us first – when we certainly do not deserve it- and then we get to respond.
We inherit, not as reward, but because God is generous with steadfast, unconditional love.
So how are we going to go into this day?
Fretting how we will get ahead?
Working hard to earn God’s good graces?
Or
Thankful for all we are given that we have not and cannot earn, and sharing those same gifts with others?