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You Have Turned My Mourning Into Dancing

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  TUE Ev Prayer Reflection 032321 (Jeremiah 25: 8-17; Romans 10:1-13; John 9:18-41) After reading today’s scriptures, I couldn’t help it but think of the way we tend to act within our relationship with God. When two people are dancing together, we usually expect one person to take the lead. When both dancers try to lead at the same time, things don’t turn out well because one goes to the left as the other tries to go the right: Disaster: someone’s feet get trampled on! In the same way, we should let God lead in our relationship with Him. We can’t both lead! I can see this scenario in what Jesus said: ‘ I came into this world for judgement so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind. ’ If we think we see (and begin to lead) in our relationship with God, then we have no idea that we are truly blind. But if we let God lead in the relationship, that’s when we will truly begin to see (and find Salvation). Scripture tells us further that Some of the Phari

Reshaped By God

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  WED Evening Prayer Reflection 031721 (Jeremiah 18:1-11) The prophet Jeremiah is sent to a potter’s house to observe his work and prepare a sermon to be delivered to the people of Israel. The prophet began to observe the potter, how easy and quick he worked with clay, which he designed and formed into a shape he wanted. If the mold was so stiff, he would rework it and remove potential foreign object from the mold. If the lump was marred in his hands, he would reshape the mold. Now if there is anything frightening in life, no comparison may compete with this. I remember a recent sermon mentioning how God is patient and slow to anger and yet at times He says: I have had it! This we can understand because, we are the ones that are impatient, easily angered and unforgiving. God is not like that, but surely, he can get tired of behaviors of disobedience. By sending the prophet to the potter, God wanted also to invite all of us his audience to observe the potter and the prophet with th