Wednesday 30 November 2022
Heliskiing is all about not standing firm, and finding the flow.
Living faithfully we stand firm
…
and
flexible
on whatever ground we find ourselves.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Words of Grace For Today
Some things are a given in life. People say it’s only taxes and death, but there are plenty more givens: pain, sorrow, yearning, dreaming, hoping, losing, hunger and thirst.
God knew all this before God created us, and God provided for all that, with promises and hope that could not be defeated, because it relies on God, not on us humans. And God sent Jesus to bring living water for our thirst and nourishing bread for our hunger. Living water and nourishing bread of all kinds, for our thirsts and hungers of all kinds.
Optional in life is to believe in God’s goodness, and God’s good graces turned towards us at all times.
But for those of us who believe, life is so much more than the givens. Life is filled with all the gifts that God has given us, which more than outweigh the ‘costs’ in life to the other tragic givens far beyond taxes and death.
For those of us who believe, Cornelia Georg and Michael Kremzow have written these words and Michael Kremzow the melody to help us speak our firm faith based on God’s grace for us:
Ich stehe dazu
1) Ich glaube an Gott, den Herrn der Welt, der mich durch seine Hand erhält.
Er schenkt mir Leben und Verstand und ist mir täglich zugewandt.
Er gibt zum Leben, was mir nützt.
Er ist es, der mich schirmt und schützt.
Er liebt mich, auch wenn ich versag’
drum dank ich ihm an jeden Tag.
Ref: Ich steh dazu, das glaube ich.
Ich steh dazu, weil Christus mich im Leben und in Tod erhält.
Das ist mein Trost in dieser Welt.
Ich steh dazu.
2) Ich glaube auch an Jesus Christ,
der für mich Mensch geworden ist.
Sein Tod an Kreuz wird Brückenschlag,
weil er erstand am dritten Tag.
Er ist mein Herr, der durch den Tod gegangen ist
und nun bei Gott mich macht von allen Schulden frei, das ich ihm stets verbunden sei.
3) Ich glaube an den Heiligen Geist, der mich den Weg zu Christus weist.
Auch meinen Weg durch diese Welt, bin ich nicht nur auf mich gestellt,
denn Gottes Geist schenkt Gaben mir und lässt mich sehn auf Erden hier,
dass in Gemeinschaft dann bei Gott ich ewig lebe nach dem Tod.
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Google translated refined by TL
I Stand Firm
1) I believe in God, Lord of all, who sustains me with His hand.
He gives me life and reason and hears me each day.
He gives for life all I need.
It is He who shields and protects me.
He loves me even when I fail
so I thank him every day.
Ref: I stand firm, this I believe.
I stand firm because Christ sustains me in life and in death.
That is my comfort in this world.
By Grace I stand firm.
2) I also believe in Jesus Christ, who became human for me.
His death on the cross builds the bridge, because he rose on the third day.
He is my Lord who has passed through death and now with God frees me from all sins,
so that I am always bound to him.
3) I believe in the Holy Spirit who shows me the way to Christ.
Also my way through this world.
I’m not on my own, for God’s Spirit gives me gifts
and gives me sight here on earth to see
in communion with God I live after death forever.
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Today will be another cold, cold winter day; and a day to remember from whom comes our strength, our hope, and our courage, no matter the thirst or hunger that gnaws away at us each day.
By Grace we can stand firm
and flexible!