A Most Precious Gift
Sunday 23 February 2025
Guarded By God
Wonders of Wonders,
And More To Come!
Zechariah 9:8
Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that no one shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I have seen with my own eyes.
Luke 8:24-25
They went to him and woke him up, shouting, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?’
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Words of Grace For Today
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Life has all sorts of challenges.
Many would do us in.
More would just make our lives a whole lot more difficult, leading to an earlier death.
How do we hang on to our faith in the midst of these challenges?
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If faith were our own making, the news would be devastating. We could not hang on to our faith. We’d lose it. We’d be toast.
Thank God, the Holy Spirit creates faith in us, and through our experiences collected from our forebearers and our own experiences, we can learn that there simply are no challenges to us, not even imminent death, that need create fear in us that we are on our own, that God has abandoned us to the deep and deadly.
For God stands as sentry to our hearts, minds, and spirits, protecting us from all that would do us in. For, since God has made us sinners into saints (though we also remain sinners), we are therefore spiritual beings on a human journey, not mere humans on a failing spiritual journey.
Death is not our end, just an end to this journey, and then comes …
well that we will find out, but God promises it will be more wondrous than this journey as humans.
Thanks be to God.