Day of Praise

Sa, 12/13/14, "Day of Praise"

"'I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,' declares the LORD." - Jeremiah 9:24

Happy Saturday! For many of you, today is a day for "exercise." A day for getting active with a jog around the neighborhood or getting things done around the house.

God likes to "exercise" and get active too. Actually, in today's verse, God says he "delights" in exercise.

And it's a good thing.

Because, according to God in all the other verses in today's Bible reading, God has lots of chances to exercise. Lots of chances to exercise "kindness, justice and righteousness on earth."

Just yesterday, God exercised kindness on a man who is grieving, a young dad in a horrific car accident, a woman with speculative cancer surgery, a woman in the hospital, and a woman with heart tests. God exercised justice on a local situation that had gotten out of hand. And God exercised righteousness, well, in more souls than there is room here to list.

That's a lot of exercising in one day...and that's just through the lens of one man in one place. How much more throughout your life and all the world? Day after day, season after season, year after year.

But God is up to it.

Actually, no, we must say more because God says more.

God delights in all that exercise.

Because God delights in you.

So, today, as you jog around the neighborhood or get things done around the house...

Remember, the LORD is with you. He is your help and strength. And he loves every minute of it.

I pray you will too.

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson