Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“When you send forth your spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the ground.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, January 14, 2022
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Creation is an ongoing process. It’s easy to think of the world having been created in one fell swoop (even if it was over millions of years) and that it’s basically done. But God continues to create the world new every day. Death and birth are constant. Fields lie dormant and then produce again. Species’ genes mutate and something new comes to be. And every morning, the sun comes up again, bathing the world in warmth and light, proclaiming God’s faithfulness. We, too, are made new each day, called into God’s love, nurtured in the spirit, and sent out to be Christ’s healing presence for all we encounter.
What does it mean to me that I am, each day, a new creation?