This morning I was blessed to receive an email from E with a
prayer she read this morning. It is based on the first chapter of Paul’s letter
to the Ephesians which says,
2 I pray that
God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you
with peace! 3 Praise
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the spiritual blessings that
Christ has brought us from heaven! 4 Before the
world was created, God had Christ choose us to live with him and to be his holy
and innocent and loving people. 5 God was
kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God’s own adopted
children. 6 God was very kind to us because of the
Son he dearly loves, and so we should praise God…
13 Christ…
brought you the truth, which is the good news about how you can be saved. You
put your faith in Christ and were given the promised Holy Spirit to show that
you belong to God. 14 The Spirit also makes us sure
that we will be given what God has stored up for his people. Then we will be
set free, and God will be honored and praised. (Contemporary English Version)
The prayer E sent came
from a 2016 “Christ in Our Home,” and says, “Holy Spirit, our world is so
confusing. Bless us with the clarity that is in Christ.”
Paul’s letters are filled
with confident statements of faith. Again and again he tells us of the promises
we have received through Jesus Christ. We need those reminders that we are
God’s beloved children. That we have been blessed with the advocacy of the Holy
Spirit. That we have a great future in store for us. We need those reminders
because sometimes the troubles of life can distract us and we need the Holy
Spirit to redirect our focus to all that God is doing. Truly I share in Paul’s
prayer that our good God is blessing you with kindness and peace. And I pray
that we can share those same blessings with others.
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