Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.”
NL Daily Devotion for Monday, September 2, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
What book is that, exactly? There are plenty of folks who’ve tried to figure this out. Some actually have a specific number of people who are going to make it into heaven, and it’s not all that big. Why would anyone want to practice a religion that gives them tiny, tiny odds of not being sent to an eternity in hell?
I don’t mean to be snarky. Well, maybe just a little. But the God I believe in is absolutely unlimited. Unlimited in time and space and in mercy and grace and in love you can trace through a boundless embrace. Imagine the most ridiculously large dictionary you can, containing more words than you can comprehend, and then know that God’s “book” is incomprehensibly larger. The God I believe in lovingly writes (in the most beautiful calligraphy, I would imagine) each and every human being ever brought into being, every living creature, every iota of creation in her “book.”
Life is hard. For everyone. For some it’s unbearable. And all will be enfolded into God’s loving arms for eternity, without exception.
What do I believe about who will or will not be together with God forever?
