Not Quite
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Not at all!
not even the snow is perfect, all crumpled up with chunks
Genesis 6:9
These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
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1 Peter 1:15
Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Ah to be blameless, pure and holy,
but that would be to be not human.
So how was Noah attributed with being blameless.
How can the writer of 1 Peter call us to be holy as Jesus is holy?
Wishful thinking,
the kind that so many people have latched on to, chasing an unreachable dream,
and then using that dream to condemn others so the condemner appears (to themselves anyway) to be better than the condemned,
when
all are equally sinful in God’s eyes, far from pure, holy, or blameless.
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Yet Jesus offers us the gifts of being reckoned by God as he was: pure, holy, or blameless,
which is not our record, but Jesus’.
Nothing to brag about or be proud of, just
a whole lot of humility and thanks for that,
again,
always.