Day 18 - Wake up and recover your life!
Scripture focus: This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; this time I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts. I'll be their God, they'll be my people. They won't go to school to learn about me, or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons. They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust. Hebrews 8:10-13 (The Message)
If today's scripture focus doesn't wake you up – you don't have a pulse.
Listen carefully.
God says all get to know him firsthand. (I'm not seeing any exception clauses here. No names appear that say everyone but…Susan, Craig, Butch, Donna, Lucy. It says "all.")
The little and small get to know him. (So for those of us who feel empty, small and insignificant, God says we get to know him, too. Not just the super stars, all of us.)
The big and great get to know him. (God comes not just for the oppressed, imprisoned, lost, ignored and abandoned. He also comes for the big cheeses. So all you super stars out there, he's coming for you too.)
Not one freaking exception in this promise: all have access to God.
You, (fill in your name), are part of God's new plan. This plan is carved in the lining of your heart. You are God's man/woman. You won't need to go to seminary or read a bunch of books to learn the rules of play (although rumor has it seminary and reading good books is plenty fun). You, (fill in your name), are kindly forgiven, wiped clean inside and out, perfectly permitted to know God firsthand.
Oh. My. Gosh.
I bet you can't even get a real person to talk to about your phone service, but you can talk to God himself.
Like I said. If this doesn't wake you up, you don't have a pulse.
Recommended reading: Numbers 31-33
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