Not That At All. Instead
Go and Tell All …
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Sometimes We Fog Up,
Looking for the Way Out of Our Messy Lives.
God Sends Us Back Into the Mess, to ….
Psalm 31:7-8
I will exult and rejoice in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have taken heed of my adversities, and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
Mark 5:19
But Jesus refused, and said to him, ‘Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.’
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Words of Grace For Today
All too often we ask and even try to demand from God something that we want, something that we are sure is what God would have for us, something that is a sacrifice of all we are and can be, and
God
says
No!
Instead God sends us right back where we’ve tried to escape from, from the grind of daily life, from the hell that daily life is (due to other people, usually), from the past that has dragged us so far into to the pit that we can barely see the horizon.
God sends us back, and tells us to
Tell everyone what God has done for us, rescuing us, healing us, forgiving us, renewing life in us, giving us hope again!
It is that we year and long for everything to be different so that maybe everything will be right in our lives.
Instead, God makes us right with God, so that no matter the circumstances that we live in and under, God can work through us to bring Grace to bear on more and more people.
So it is, this day, we enter our daily lives, looking like nothing has happened to us, and yet
everything has happened,
God has happened,
the Holy Spirit has transformed us poor sinners (actually we are very good sinners, just poorer beyond imagination for it) into saints,
those through whom the Light of Christ shines
through all the brokenness of life
into the heart of the matter, the heart of each person, the heart of God’s Kingdom come near.
Just another day for saints
to be God’s miracles
for others.