Sunday, October 9, 2022
No Need To Be Stuck In The Rut.
God Calls For A Different Way of Living.
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
Just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Words of Grace For Today
To hear God’s Word is precious, awesome, dreadful, life-giving, and demanding.
No one said is was a comfortable ride through life seeing God everywhere, hearing God always, listening to God all day and all night, and following God’s Word with thankful hearts.
Far to many people have interpreted and reported that God demands obedience to [fill in the blank with the current religious leaders’ wishes for controlling people] in order that we will live well and blessed. With this view to God’s Word, to which apparently neither the religious leaders nor their followers have bothered to listen – that is God’s actual Word, it is either an easy thing or an impossible thing to listen and follow.
So many paths have been taken. So many paths have been foisted on others. And so many of these paths lead to life wasted.
God’s precious Word demands not obedience, but a response of gratitude, service, dedication, and sacrifice for others.
God’s precious Word gives life by forgiving sins and making saints out of tremendous (that is wretched) and worthless sinners.
God’s precious Word is dreadful because it sees through all attempts we make to hide or obscure or minimize our sinfulness.
God’s precious Word is awesome because it outshines, out-sings, out-dances everything else in the universe.
Today, see, listen, serve and smile with gratitude, for this is how God created us to live.
It’s another day, more opportunities to serve, more opportunities to share God’s actual precious Word, and more opportunities to live life as God created us to live it.