DAY 186
THE SHORT SUMMARY
Job 30 & 31 and Acts 13:26-52
Today Job finishes his final speech.
You and I might be tired of hearing what seems to be the same words again, but
when you are suffering and pleading your case, is there too many times a person
can “plead for his life.”
In Acts we read the balance of Paul and
Barnabas’ sermon. They provide a wonderful thumbnail sketch of God’s story of
redemption, a short summary you might say. It started yesterday with an invitation
by the synagogue leader, “Brothers if any of you have a word of encouragement,
please share it.”
A word of encouragement – what a
wonderful phrase – what a wonderful idea: let me offer you one. The story you
have been reading about and I have been writing about for a little more than
six months is the Word of Encouragement. Paul and Barnabas’ story is God’s
story of love for you, how he, God, created the good earth and good humanity,
and as it/we went astray over and over He, God, did not give up. In fact He
went so far to come into the world, all for the love a you – a short summary.
Today my family is laying to rest my
mother, it is a day we are holding onto and being held by, all that this story
means, that there is hope in the Resurrection because our God is a God of Hope
and Love.
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