Hope For Today

To grow and mature and do well in any area of life requires commitment. Maintaining our life with God also takes time and effort. The habits and disciplines we practice need to be consistently carried on if we are to grow and mature. 

May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 We work hard at many things – not just our employment but our relationships, our service work, even the chores and handiwork we do.  I don’t know about you but when I know someone appreciates what I do, it gives me energy to get going and do a decent job. This is what we ask of God today.

God invites us today to come close to Him for all we need and then to come close to others to share with them how they can do the same.

When we have given our will and life over to the care of God, we are assured that His eyes always watch over us and His ears are open to all our prayers.

God longs for us to be people who are alive and fresh and good. He calls us to be his people, distinctive by the fact that we have life in us rather than death, truth that we are basing our values and behaviours on rather than convenient changing social mores.

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God. In our  circle of family and friends there will be lots of happy people if we can live into this today.

What might God be able to accomplish with yours and my ordinary lives if we were to offer them to Him today and follow what He tells us to do?

We humans are quite small and fragile in the big scheme of things. We’re easily brought to a place of desperation. Thankfully God is there when we finally realize our need and makes all we need available to us.

God wants us to be responsible and generous with all He has given us – time, abilities, money, possessions. God wants us to ask for wisdom and seek His will in how we use the resources we have been given. He promises to bless us when we do.

Whether today is just another step in a long journey for you or maybe you are at a place where you only hoped you could be and God has brought you here, let’s take a moment and make a response of thanks and trust to God who is making a treasure for us of this day.

Today we consider the priority God gives us to give an account of ourselves to Him rather than spending time and attention passing judgment on others.

With all the challenges we face individually and collectively as communities and a society, we’re thinking today about what it means to be supportive  of one another.