Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them… I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act,’ says the Lord.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, November 16, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
I need these words of hope. The world is just a messed up place. Always has been. But living in the midst of a pandemic and other unrest, it’s easy to feel ‘cut off completely’ from God and my fellow human beings, to want to curl up in a corner and wait for it to go away.
God’s prophets say to us that God’s spirit lives within us, and because of that, we shall live. God’s prophets tell us that God will act. Does act. Is acting now. I don’t need to live as if I’m a heap of bones. In God I have everything I need to live into the call to serve God and my neighbor no matter what is going on around me.
What refreshes my spirit and sustains me in God’s work?
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