Week 5

Day 27

• Luke 15
• 2 Corinthians 5:21

Grieve and Rejoice

God's angels celebrate whenever a soul returns.  How do we react?  Sometimes like the Pharisees who could not allow their judgments to release the sinners from their sin.  Or, other times we are the lost sheep or coin.  Wandered off or not paying attention, or perhaps fallen out of "currency and into the bottom of the purse.  But we are all so much more precious than herds of sheep and houses full of coins.  And God restlessly sweeps the nooks and crannies for us.

Let Him find you, save you, comfort you after the frightening separation and clean you from your time in the dark unkept corners. The death Jesus died allowed for God's light to reach us all, not just the good.  Like Carolane, walk into the light.

Day 28

• Psalm 32
• John 3:14-21
• Running from the God light as though you are Adam and Eve in Eden
  The language in John is similar to the scenario in the creation story. As God called, his creation ran and his afraid of what they had done as well as what they understood.
  I've run from God and his people, at times without ever leaving my pew.

Day 29

• Ephesians 2:1-10
• Numbers 21:4-9
• Though Good sent the snakes, when the people repented, he sent a way to be saved. When we repent and run to God for the cure of sin, he wraps us in Jesus. His death on our behalf covers our son and allows us to have an intimate relationship with God-no Moses required.

Day 30

• Genesis 3
• Romans 6:15-23
• Who Told You You Were Naked?
  
  
  The choice for freedom is not as simple as you think.  To eat the apple or not?  To follow sin or not?  There was a snake involved, a lifelong partner listening and watching intently, and the first dissenting voice which caused a fissure between faith and reason.  Freedom is thought of as running through a meadow with a big smile and comfortable cotton clothes.  Doing whatever you want, answering to no one, and not having to do anything.  Like a "Sunday morning" (for those who either don't attend services in the morning or with a brick and mortar community at that time".  

Day 31
Mark 10

Here, in this miracle, it was the faith of the blind man that SAVED and HEALED him.  In other miracles, Jesus forgives the sinner/heals the person and tells them to sin no more to show that he has both the ability to forgive sins and heal.  This miracle is powerful, not only because a blind man has been given sight, but because it shows our faith can play a role in healing and saving ourselves.  

Day 32
Mark 11

Say something!

Jesus was quick to say something. Whether you were the natural fig tree or the human in the church, Jesus was no respector of sinners.  He was frustrated with how wrong we were getting everything.  But we weren't just getting things like the law wrong, it was our relationship with God and each other that brought it out of him.

Day 33

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