Was there a Wednesday this week? Sorry for the miss.
...the demand that we be holy is possible only because we find that we can rest within ourselves. When we exist as a forgiven people we are able to be at peace with our histories, so that now God's life determines our whole way of being - our character. We no longer need to deny our past, or tell ourselves false stories, as now we can accept what we have been without the knowledge of our sin destroying us.
Again, when we are able to see ourselves as forgiven, we have room to breathe - room to rest - room to begin again - room to enter the day without trying to cover up what we have been - room to dress for this day without carrying along the baggage from earlier days of our lives. We are a holy people because that is what our God calls us. In that name calling, is the word of forgiveness we are invited to hear and then make the center of our character. Without this character, we go on living our lives trying to make room for the brokenness of our lives by covering it over or trying to put dress it up as something it is not. We are free as forgiven people to enter the promise of the peace of God's Reign even when we have so many "good" reasons to remain just as we are.
Connection: It is always the right time to breath and rest in the promises of God's love for us - forgiveness even when we think it makes no sense.
Lord God, by the power of you Spirit of new life lift us up to see your Reign of promise even as we stay tied to the ways of our past that have created divisions and set up wall between us. Amen.
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