Like Water Spilled

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Verses pertinent to today's reading: All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him. (2 Samuel 14: 14)

Slice of Infinity snippets: "Ravi Zacharias once noted that God knows exactly how to exalt us without flattering us, how to humble us without humiliating us. At the image of 2 Samuel 14, his words are entirely fitting. I am at once humbled and exalted at the thought of myself as water spilled. Gathering spilled water is impossible. You and I are incapable of drying the child's tears if it means we must somehow reverse the fall of spilled milk. And yet this is exactly how the Father chooses to describe a world full of children and the means God takes to pursue them. The God of the impossible has devised a means so that the life spilled will not remain scattered. Life poured out can yet be gathered up again; what is lost can be found. As Jesus came proclaiming the great reversals of the kingdom, so he poured out his own life as a drink offering so that the lost can be gathered, the impossible made possible. Christ has done what we could never do: he has made a way to reverse what has been spilled. "

Chad's comments: Oh how many times i have spilled trust. Oh how i wish i could take it back. Thank you God for the courage to try again and thank you God for giving others the grace to trust me.

Yesterday, I was in conversation with an 86 year old retired Air Force man. He expounded on and on about how people who think they are the only ones going to heaven cannot be right. (All the Muslims and Buddhist can't be going to hell - etc.) In my morning scripture I was reading the opening chapters of Hebrews. 2:1-4 reads

1 So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it. 2 For the message God delivered through angels has always stood firm, and every violation of the law and every act of disobedience was punished. 3 So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak? 4 And God confirmed the message by giving signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit whenever he chose.

Jesus has received the just penalty for our transgressions. Everyone may believe. Our message of hope is not
only for the Jew, but also for the Gentile. For the Buddhist and Hindu, Muslim and Christian alike. Let us not
ignore or neglect so great a salvation, for truly, how could we escape?

Dale came through Hip surgery yesterday with great success. He is coherent and ready to go home.
There was a point where they were having difficulty waking him up. When he finally did, he was talking
about how he was in a race claiming, 'I won, I won'. Later, after coming to for a few minutes, he thinks
maybe he got second place. = )

Thanks for prayers that were offered on Dale's behalf.

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