Away Our godlets

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Our Lives May Seem Too Precious to Place in Such A Small Boat,

on the Treacherous Waters of Life,

But the Master of the Waters Knows and Protects Us.

Climb In?

Joshua 24:14

‘Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Galatians 4:8-9

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

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Words of Grace For Today

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Confidence in the economy can push a down slump into something more severe.

And

Everything can be linked back to the economy.

Or so Peter Armstrong reported (quoting others) in his weekly CBC Mind You Business newsletter for 7 October 2024.

Challenged by God’s Word in Christ, let us pray for the church, the world, and the whole creation.

and instead

accept the grace of God demonstrated most visibly in the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ, as the measure of our confidence in love and hope, and our linking everything to God’s grace,

letting the economy (and our parts in it) recede into the distance

as matters

that can even concern our confidence or non-confidence?

What else will give us life?