Or conform?
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
And Get Squashed
No more able to conform to the badlands
than to the devil’s wishes
and yet ….
Joshua 24:22
Then Joshua said to the people, ‘You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.’ And they said, ‘We are witnesses.’
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2 Peter 1:10-11
Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble. For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Standing in the crowd, most people bow to the emotions and direction of charismatic rulers, as those leaders promise to provide better days for the crowds, even as those charismatic punks steal everything and everything possible from the crowds for themselves and those who pave the way to power for the weak people desperate to be rules.
So the crowd conforms.
So the crowd confirms.
So the crowd gives weak people power over them, to let themselves be robbed of life, hope, and peace.
On this necessary journey of Lent,
seeking to find the reason for all this chaos,
we remember God chose and called us,
equipped us and sent us out to
the most vulnerable
with the most valuable words
the Word of God,
the promise
of life
for
all.