Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“‘The Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; he will root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their ancestors, and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their sacred poles, provoking the Lord to anger.’”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, October 31, 2019
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
There was a time in my life when I felt God had abandoned me. One absolutely horrible summer when all the people I had relied on fell away, when tragedy struck someone dear to me, when all of my life felt completely unmanageable. Why was this happening? Where was God?
As it turned out, it wasn’t God who had done the abandoning. It was me. I had “made [my] sacred poles,” that is, put my trust in people and things other than God. I found myself “a reed shaken in the water” and “scattered” from the comforts of my life because I had actually chosen these things, not because God was putting them upon me.
As with God’s beloved Israel, I am always welcome to return home no matter how far I’ve been scattered. Eventually someone showed me the way back. I broke down my sacred poles and was gathered into God’s loving arms once again.
Have I put my reliance on things other than God? How has it affected my life?
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