Thursday 24 November 2022
Looking afar
we may search for
the ‘colour of life’ elsewhere,
Doch God has put all blessings
among us.
Isaiah 49:8
Thus says the Lord:
In a time of favour I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.
Luke 17:21
Nor will they say, “Look, here it is!” or “There it is!” For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.
Words of Grace For Today
While the world teaches us to find our way,
our way in the world to success, to happiness, to comfort, to privilege, to contentment, to blessings, to prosperity, to [fill in what we all chase], and to find our way to God,
Jesus turns that all around, inside out, upside down (well, right side up, as it turns out) and shows us
we need not ‘find’ our way,
because God walks with us, and God is among us, and the Holy Spirit leads us, comforts us, provides us happiness, contentment, unending blessings, and all that is good for us, and
because God has claimed us and established among us God’s reign.
This is less for our benefit, than for those who see us
so that they may know
In a time of favour God has answered us, on a day of salvation God has helped us,
so that what is right;
I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.
so that what is right will also be established for all people and the land.
so that what has been laid to waste will be renewed,
so that what is lost from our pasts, will be redeemed and renewed.
For this is God’s good Will towards all of us who live on this fragile planet earth.
And that is what God gives us to teach the world
about Grace.