I’m not sure that I actually selected the scripture for this, my humble meditation. I believe it was informally assigned to me, a very good thing. If I had selected scripture it would have been a familiar one from Sunday School days. Maybe this one makes me think a little deeper.
The words in Luke 20:37 start to jump out at me again and again, that He’s the God of the LIVING, not the dead. For to Him all are alive. Some of the teachers of the law in Luke responded “well said teacher.” That phrase had been used so many times.
My meditation and practice for this season came from my old friend, Bill Klein of Roanoke, VA who prays in his book “Prayers Public and Private,” published by Providence House, “once again, O God; we come confessing that we have failed you. Vows once made to you, we have forgotten. We are not worthy of your love nor do we deserve the great dreams you have for us. Deeper still, we are afraid of your love and terrified by your dreams, so we keep our comfortable distance. We put off the call to take up our cross and follow your Son. Instead we flee as did the disciples of old to the safety of moderate virtue which costs nothing, to the safety of conventional religion which disturbs no one, to the safety of public decency which even the godless observe. You, however, wait for us and the world waits for people not afraid to follow your Son courageously. Help us to be that people. Hear our thoughts and prayers and make us better than we are.” AMEN
Bill Stott
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