Being Turned Back
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
God’s Can, Our Can’t
The Beauty Only God Can Give,
A Day Brought To A Wondrous Close,
Is Ours As We Share It With Those Most In Need.
Second Chronicles 30:9
For as you return to the Lord, your kindred and your children will find compassion with their captors, and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
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Luke 22:32
Jesus spoke to Simon: but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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God is gracious and merciful.
God can save us from ourselves, and from our enemies.
God can bring us to live life abundant
by sharing God’s generous gifts with others in need.
God can!
We cannot!
We cannot save ourselves!
We cannot make our lives better!
We cannot help others!
We cannot even turn back to God.
Only God can turn us back.
Nothing good can happen without God making it happen.
Nothing good happens that is not something we do for others.
Just another day in trying to fix it ourselves and making it worse.
And God saving us from ourselves,
and sending us out to help others.