O God of All Creation,
Today we seek Your guidance. The word is changing so rapidly. New technology is amazing for some and frightening for others. The financial concerns of the nation and the world are very real. Politics has been reduced to winning and losing, while the public is held hostage and yearning for statesmen to make the best decisions for the country. Some are concerned that there might be more days than paycheck. Some are dreading a call from the doctor’s office. In the midst of it all, You are our God. Guide us through the storms and squalls of life, O Lord. May we allow Jesus to be our Polar Star to guide our way. You promise us strength for the journey as we turn into Your embrace. Guide us this day, we pray. In Jesus name, AMEN.
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I hope everyone had a good July Fourth celebration. The music and fireworks at Meadowlake were wonderful.
Please continue to pray for Sharon Watkins as she bikes toward Nashville and the General Assembly.
The scripture for today is Romans 1:18-32:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done. They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die—yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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