An Ordinary Reflection

This post was from July 5, 2011...

"Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Trial, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? Yet in all this we are more than conquerors because of him who has loved us." --Romans 8:35-37

As we return from a holiday weekend, blessed to know that there is a God who gave us a country where we could be free to worship him without fear, to the work that we place in our hands to pass us through the day, let us remember that today we will encounter temptations and trials. God loves us and is with us with the temptations and trials and he is with us through sin and sorrow. Let us also rejoice that God is with us and he has conquered death and the grave and made us co-heirs in the promise he has made. And as always, 'If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us?'

'All powerful Father, merciful Lord, saving Spirit; come into our hearts and bless our lives. Make them holy and pleasing to you. Let our living give witness to your dying. Let our dying to ourselves give witness to your rising. Take this day and make it yours and lead us to share in the inheritance given in our baptism. In all our needs, help us to cry out to you. Lord, you are our life and light, be with us on our journey and help us to draw ever closer to you. We ask this through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.'