WEDNESDAY, August 5
Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, and rule the earth, for you shall take all nations for your own.
We’re in the midst of difficult political times. Issues, personalities, and positions create fissures in relationships and communities. This environment can feel unmanageable.
Twelve Step recovery programs offer insights in navigating these perils. Participants admit they are powerless and their lives are unmanageable. They come to believe a power greater than themselves can restore them to sanity. Then they make a decision to turn their will and lives over to the care of God as they understand him.
Ironically, the more they surrender to God, the more control they seem to have of themselves.
What surrender to a higher power looks like in practical terms varies. I wonder what the practicalities of turning our political will over to God might look like.
We are God’s—children of the Most High.
Arise, O God, and rule the earth, for you shall take all nations for your own.
MOVING FORWARD: How do you understand God in your life as your higher power?
Ps 119:97-120 * 81, 82 | Judges 7:19—8:12 | Acts 3:12-26 | John 1:29-42
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