Special Favours
For the Righteous, Really?
Sunday, July 23, 2023
We May See the Obstacles.
God Shows Us the Light
that Gives Life Abundant to All.
Psalm 5:12
For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover them with favour as with a shield.
1 John 5:18
We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.
Words of Grace For Today
Sometimes it just ain’t so, as Scripture seems to tell us.
The righteous are not blessed with special favours. In fact there are few if any really righteous people.
And all people seem to get the same challenges and shafts, enough to send us to the grave happy to escape this mess.
Except the wealthy, powerful, and privileged seem to get away with ‘blessings’ that are really not theirs to have, stealing the necessities of life from others so that they can live in comfort and privilege they certainly do not deserve, unless evil rewards them so!
Except …
Yes, this is the first EXCEPT:
We do not make ourselves righteous. Only God can do that, and God did do that, in our baptisms, as promised through the life, teaching, healing, death and resurrection of God’s son, Jesus, the Christ.
So the righteous do get special favours, not that we’ve earned them, but that God has chosen us and chosen to favour us, even though we do not deserve anything but death.
As for the evil one touching us … well, we remain sinners and therein the evil one gets us each day, also.
So we live blessed and captured by the evil one, both at the same time, all the time, fully so both.
No wonder life never seems simple, except
except when God has us see clearly, God’s grace, God’s love, God’s mercy, and God’s will for us … to share all the blessings we have with others.
Sharing all we have with others is the foremost special favour God shows us.
Simple.
Simply Wonderful.
Simply Beautiful.