As I was trying unsuccessfully to avoid the news last week, I was reminded that in Galatians 3 you tell us that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ.
Father, what remarkable words for such trying times. Words that remind us because of your amazing grace, because of the complete and finished work of Christ we are all one in Christ. Father, helps us to know that when you say we are all one in Christ that you don’t mean just the democrats or republicans, that you don’t mean just the Baptists or the Presbyterians, that you don’t mean only the people gathered here at our Church, but that you mean all believers everywhere, you mean all of your children.
Father, we come this morning thankful, thankful for the many blessings you provide, thankful for relationships, thankful for this small pieces of your Church. A place where we can come to worship, to grow, to learn, to be in community with one another, but help us to always be a safe place, a place that knows and shows grace, a place where we say give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
Lord Jesus, in these crazy busy, distracting and polarizing times, help us as our brother Scotty Smith says to be “in union with you, to know that there are no little people or big people, no dung worthy people groups or ethnic super groups and help us to never boast in our race, but only in your grace. Lord Jesus, forgive, free and focus us always to live and love to your glory.”
Abba Father, we love you and pray in the most beautiful name of Jesus Christ... Amen and Amen!
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