As For Us
Monday, April 21, 2025
We are Returning To God
By the Spirit’s Work In Us We Turn To The Light,
not on our own,
never,
we cannot ever.
First Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.’
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1 Corinthians 8:6
… yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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We all make choices.
God gives us that ability.
To choose to love as God created us, or to turn and serve other gods or godlets or ourselves.
We would like to take the credit for choosing right, for choosing to turn to God, to love God, ourselves, our neighbours, our enemies and all creation,
BUT
WE cannot.
On our own we cannot ever make such choices.
What we can all on our own is turn away from God, away from love, to ways that diminish and extinguish life for us all, and for all creation.
That is the starting point of honesty with ourselves, and our own turning to God: We cannot turn ourselves to God.
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But God can.
God does.
The Holy Spirit works in us.
And we are able thus to leave behind our godlets, our false gods, our worship of ourselves.
We are able to turn and trust God as we serve those in need.