Sunday review November 9-14
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November 9
… your team might be in charge for awhile, but someday they will again be the losers. Political fortunes ebb and flow. The psalmist declared there is one righteous face we will someday see. He didn’t run in any election. No one spent billions so he could govern. He wasn’t red or blue.
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November 10
Jeremiah 17:10 says that God searches our hearts and minds and gives to each of us according to our ways and our deeds. While we might not like to admit it, we all have blind spots, things we don’t see or understand about ourselves. Others see some of these and can help us overcome or reveal areas that need attention. But God alone knows us completely.
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November 11
There may be temporary hope in who is a President or what the vote count is in the Senate, the House, or even the Supreme Court. But honestly, those plans and strategies are all time bound. And the decisions any of these authorities might make will not last for eternity. Their power does not rise above our eternal God nor last forever.
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November 12
I’m just wondering what might happen in our communities, our country, and even in the world if we lived as ambassadors of Jesus instead of ambassadors for our political parties? What if our loyalty and our voice was always rooted in the love of Christ for the purposes of Christ and his Kingdom?
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November 13
…enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, and envy. Is there a better list of words to describe the sad state of how we are treating each other in the current moment of 2020? And sadly, Christians are lining up with (if not leading the pack in) practices that clearly are rooted in the flesh.
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November 14
Could it be we’ve so seldom experienced grace that we don’t understand it exists? Is this why Christians sometimes wonder and worry about their relationship with God? Does this explain why they fear their misshapen motives and faulty decisions will keep them from him?
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