God as invitation. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]God as invitation is filled with expectation - invitation to what!?! Well - life
that is seasoned with the fullness of God's Spirit of all hopefulness. This is a
Spirit that is able to take ordinary lives that are often sucked up into the patterns
of the world and opens wide a door to life that will transform those patterns. As
this God acts among us, our lives are filled with the power of new life to which
the Scriptures attempt to give witness. It is a witness of love that lives with
and alongside and on behalf of others - the good, the bad and all whose lives also
need to hear an invitation to new life. We become the invitation of our God by putting
our own flesh and blood out there as part of the life into which God is inviting
the whole world. We are each invited to be a witness to a strange new reality in
which the peace that passes all understanding is becoming more and more known to
the world as we enter it and the Spirit of God wraps us up in its promises. The
whole of Scripture is this invitation put into stories again and again - until
we get it.
O God of love and new life, inspire us to step up and take hold of the invitation
and the life it offers each of us this day. Amen.
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