I might be getting ahead of myself as I
dive back into the attributes of God for Thursday Theology. I fully intend to write more about who God
is, because I think this is important, but as I was working through Sacred Ordinary Days, this morning, I
was struck by a "what God does"
moment. Interestingly, I think humanity
has been trying to separate the concepts of who
we are and what we do for a very
long time. There is some good that comes
from that. Life as a number or a
position title really stinks. But I
think there is also value in recognizing that who we are often does, indeed, inform
what we do.
Psalm
103:1-5 "Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being,
praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who
forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases, who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is
renewed like the eagle’s" (NIV).
God redeems.
God redeems and redeems and redeems.
God calls us to help in redemption.
And then God redeems, some more.
It was not lost on me that, in my reading
today, there was a theme of humility and testing. It seems that in order for redemption to take
place, there must be something (or someone) to redeem. If I'm honest, I would like redemption to be
sparkly and beautiful and easy. It's
not. Sometimes it seems like we want to
live in fairy tales, but the truth is, we really just want the happy
endings. If you have ever actually read
or watched a fairy tale (especially in its original form), you know there is a
great deal of peril involved. And such
is life.
Sometimes life is overwhelming. We can't do it on our own, friends, but we can do it. We're not on our own.
Psalm
115:1 "Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because
of your love and faithfulness" (NIV).
L.
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