About the Hour When …
Tuesday 18 February 2025
What’s Coming At Us, From Behind the Trees, On the Road, Through the Woods?
Or
What a Beautiful Sunset
Over the Snow and
Through the Woods!
Isaiah 49:23
Kings shall be your foster-fathers, and their queens your nursing-mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
Luke 12:11-12
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.’
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Words of Grace For Today
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It’s all fine and good to say do not worry, but most of us worry no matter what, sometimes even about things that deserve to be worried about.
Being brought before the authorities to defend oneself for being a Christian, when the punishment for that faith was death for so many … well that certainly seems to deserve more than a little worry. One’s life is on the line.
But then
one’s life is always on the line
if one is faithfully serving Christ
by being a servant to all, and master to none.
Only in a different life will the kings and queens bend so low as to care for us, let alone care about us, other than to wipe us out for showing the truth about their wickedness and God’s goodness.
But that worry, and that other life to come, need not consume more than passing thoughts from us. We have our work cut out for us, sharing God’s blessing and gifts with those most in need of them. Without cost they are given to us, though we certainly have not and cannot earn them. The only ‘string’ attached is that we share them. For these gifts are really only blessings if and when we share them with others in need.
That’s how God’s world works, whether we worry or not.