This week: God as wrath-less. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. If you have had a wrathful god in your life - a god that is after you - a god that is ready to pounce on you for what you may or may not do - a god that is a gatekeeper checking lists (gonna find out who is naughty or nice), give up that god. Yes, I am not capitalizing 'god' here because it is only a 'god' and not the one God. We don't need a god who is keeping score and finding ways to punish those of us who deserve punishment - duh, all of us. We are all able to do that quite well - condemn ourselves and surely condemn others. God as wrath-less is the God we see in the one we call Jesus - forever forgiving even when the crowd may not go along with it - endlessly taking up and walk with those who most folks easily condemn - repeatedly healing the ones that are always cast out for not being 'right' enough or 'well' enough. God as wrath-less is God at hand to remind us of life in which we are free to live as the inheritors of the Reign of God - even now - without the right papers or credentials or references. God as wrath-less showers us with gracefulness and mercy and loving kindness. THAT is our God. O God of love and new life, it is so easy to listen to and be led by voices of the gods of this world that know nothing of your love. Lead us and guide us home to you alone. Amen. |
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