Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Redeemer Devotions for April 17, 2013

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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