Family is never an intellectual matter—it is always much deeper.
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After reading how Peter’s mother is healed, some folks have scratched their heads that moments after recovering from being ill, she gets up and serves Jesus. It is her response to grace, by offering grace.
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People today lament the ways of life that are being endorsed by our government. The Light of Christ is getting dimmer in our world. Imagine how dim the Light was in Paul’s world. We should take note of the Letter to Philemon.
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God often asks us to offer GRACE within His Family. At times it doesn’t turn out the way we hope. At other times it does. It almost always comes at personal cost. Who are your close brothers and sisters in Christ?
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Living in the grace of Jesus Christ is less a soft and warm feeling, and more a strong and secure belief, that regardless of this world’s response—nothing can separate you from the love of God.
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Can you list off situations today where followers of Jesus face judgment from this world? Perhaps the range of issues swirling around gender and marriage come to mind. But there are more.
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Often, when we see love and grace in action, we have positive feelings. In reading this part of the Book of Ruth that is what I am experiencing. Boaz is being gracious to Ruth, and Ruth in turn is being gracious to Naomi.
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Sometimes I get to the middle of something, get stuck, and then everything is clear. I realize that the answer was present from the beginning. Does that ever happen to you? It is that moment when the proverbial light bulb is turned on, and all that seemed dark and obscure, is now plainly in sight. Reading Colossians has, for me, been very much like this kind of situation.
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We started this journey awhile back: April 16, some 165 days ago. When you spend over 5 months working at something, it pays to reflect. When we began, I wrote: “And sometimes it's messy. But we need to learn our story. Not facts, but rather our family story. Because at the heart of that story is our God. Reading Genesis, we will come face to face with evil and good; hatred and love; and law and grace. What we will find is not just the story of humanity, but of how our God loves us.” As I reflect a few things stand out. They have to do with God’s family, God’s purpose, God’s method, and more…
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My wife has taught me a few things: things you might have thought I would already have known! One big one was to simply accept a gift or compliment, and say thank you. She observed that whenever a gift or compliment came my way, I would defer, deflect, or even disagree. I will spare you the psychological analysis of why, and simply say she was right. Why do I bring this up? Because in this section of Genesis there is grace…can you see it?
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