The Reign of God as losing to death. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as losing to death and yet, winning a life. The life is one that knows that all death wants to do is take away our life. Well, in the Reign of God as losing to death allows death to say and do all that it wants. We who live in the Reign of God simply acknowledge that is what death will do to us at whenever death is able. With that in mind - with that notion that we give up to death - in the sense that we let death play its games without us - we then turn into the life that is beyond death's control. Death cannot stop us from loving even when we are losing the battle for life. Death cannot stop us from being merciful even when we are losing to the powers that only know how to disregard others and overwhelm them. The Reign of God as losing to death is a smile that breaks out even as death comes to the end of the day and seems to have won the day. No power can take away that smile. O God of love and new life, keep within us the center that is your love that is sustained no matter what blows are handed us. Amen. |
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