AdventWord2018, Day 22 – “persist”
I can’t imagine God.
For me God is without gender, without age, even without form. God is everywhere and is everything.
But I also believe that God took human form as Jesus. And God’s human form was pretty specific about what his disciples should do.
Following Jesus is hard work. There are sometimes easier paths to take, less stress and anxiety in your immediate future if you take those paths. And it doesn’t get easier to follow Jesus’ path, but I’ve learned that it’s MUCH better in the long run. And that makes me persist through any short-term difficulty in doing the right thing in the way that we are told to behave.
O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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