Tuesday 22 November 2022
A New Day!
No need to find our way.
Our guide is more sure than the moon.
Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might deny ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
Words of Grace For Today
How can we deny ourselves in order to seek from God a safe journey for ourselves, our children and all our possessions?
It seems to me that exactly that effort is what Jesus came to tell us is futile.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and on that Way the truth is that what we want out of life, like securing our own safety, just is not in the cards.
Love has no guarantees, no safeties. It’s a commitment to the other to provide as much as can be at the time, and to walk with them, as much as one can.
God can always walk with us, so that is the best it gets. No safe journey for ourselves, our children and all our possessions.
That said, there is no better journey than to walk forward to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, using words when necessary, knowing that God walks with us. If we try to make it better than that, we tend to screw it all up for ourselves, our children and for any possessions we may have.
While many have tried to make it to God, Jesus shows us again and again that such efforts are futile. God is already with us.
That’s a great day’s comfort and assurance, come what may.