Cure Time
The new driveway in my neighborhood has been roped off for a week. Concrete doesn't just dry, it cures. A chemical reaction is occurring that can take a month or more to complete. When God reveals something new to me, I need to give it cure time. Think about it, write about it, incorporate it into my life. Then, maybe I'll be ready to talk about it.
Sliders!
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. — Gal. 5:4
There's a form of backsliding that looks like taking the Lord's name in vain, claiming to be his but behaving like the world we were rescued from. Churches make much of this. But there's a more insidious form of backsliding that causes so much trouble: sliding back onto the law to prove our 'goodness.' The only thing that matters is faith expressing itself through love (two verses later).
Dependency
A man’s mind plans his way,
but the Lord directs his steps. ⏤ Prov. 16:9
Give us today our daily bread. We do our best to plan ahead. To be prepared. This is the responsible thing to do. But our perspective is limited. Things don't always work out the way we expect them to. There is something we will need tomorrow when it arrives. But first, there's today. We never come entitled. But we do come dependent.
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