Mercy is easier to understand than it is to practice. Mercy is easier to receive than it is to give. But God challenges us to become a whole person who is capable of both experiencing His mercy and then carrying it to the world around us.
Month: January 2019
God’s Critical Updates
Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day. Psalm 25:4-5 NKJV
Have you ever turned on your computer and discovered that you need to download the most recent critical updates? I confess that sometimes I hurry on, and out of impatience begin work hoping that nothing will go wrong. In the same way God offers each of us daily the guidance and protection we need to walk with Him. He is trying to protect me from my spiritual enemy in the same way as my software is alerting me to the dangers of malware, viruses or other electronic ne’er do wells.
The Bible tells us to download God’s latest spiritual updates to help us navigate today’s pathway. Sometimes it is the malware of our own ways that pops up in the operating system of our minds. Sometimes it is the temptation to fit in with the world around that is shouting for our attention. But no matter the source of the malware we have the opportunity to ask God to overwrite it with a download of His truth.
Our daily spiritual battles will no more disappear from our lives than will spam from our e-mail accounts. But every day we can make a new determination that since God alone is our salvation then we will wait take the time to download His updates and call Him up on His customer support line called prayer. He is eager to hear from us and He wants to walk with us through every valley no matter how dark! 
A Million Hugs and Kisses
All the brothers and sisters here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 1 Corinthians 16:20
The U.S. Department on aging tells us that 70% of the 1.4 million U.S. residents in long term nursing care do not receive a single visit from a friend or family member over the period of an entire year. One woman told an interviewer that she was sad to think that “No one touches me unless they are paid to.”
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But numbers tend to make our brains freeze over maybe it helps to count missing kisses and
A million hugs.
Paul commands us to greet one another with a holy kiss. At Christmastime there were a lot of church and community groups mobilizing to come in and visit local nursing homes. But now in the middle of January with the last of the tinsel put away till next year there stretches ahead another 11 long months. How many hugs and kisses can we give away this year?
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