Day of Praise

Tues, 01/07/20, "Day of Praise"

"His arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob." - Genesis 49:23-24

When Jacob blessed Joseph in today's Bible verse, he spoke of agility coming Joseph's way.

Maybe we should ask for some agility for each other.

One morning not too long ago, I needed a little physical agility to go dumpster-diving. In my typical helpfully unhelpful fashion, I thought I'd help after our church's annual Thanksgiving Feast by taking four big garbage bags out to the dumpster. Turns out that one of the garbage bags had $400 worth of linens that were borrowed from a member of the church.

Dumpster, here I come.

"In all humility, Lord," I prayed, "help me. I need some agility."

Pertaining to us all, I'd guess many of us are in the same position, namely, work needs to get done today and in the balance of the week ahead. A little mental agility would probably be helpful to us all.

So let's pray for one another for the Almighty One of Jacob to dwell in us and give us some mental agility to get it all done. And while we're at it, it probably isn't a bad idea either to pray for one another for a little physical agility so we can all get in a little physical exercise as the new year gets started.

Happy Agility Tuesday!

May God grant it to all of us today as it was granted to Joseph in days of old!

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