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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Old Testament: 2 Samuel: 7:4, 8-6
Psalm 89:1-29 or 89: 1-4, 26-29 
Epistle: Romans 4:13-18
Gospel: Luke 2:41-52
Loosely interpreting Romans 4:13-18, “righteousness comes by faith, not by law.”
     Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all . . .     (Romans 4:16)
Thanks Be to God that He judges us by faith and not by whether we follow His laws. He will judge us not by what we are and by what we do, but by His grace. God sent His son to save the broken and the ungodly, not the righteous who already know the way.
No human act can bring salvation; only God’s mercy can. The word “righteous” does not set well with me. To me it has a bad connotation of someone who follows the law because it IS the law, not because it is right or just or good. But faith is not something we can really comprehend until we come face to face with God, and that’s after life as we know it.
     Salvation, salvation, salvation is free!
     Salvation, salvation, salvation is free!     (Screamed by The Cranberries)
And faith is free with God’s mercy. It will see us to God’s mercy — us, the children of destruction, the broken, the mentally fragile, and “to all those people doing lines, to all kids with heroin eyes.”  (The Cranberries)
          . . . the promise comes by faith.  (Romans 4:16)

The promise is Salvation, Salvation, Salvation through God’s Mercy.

Faye Knopf

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