What2Say2Day? Yesterday was honestly a great day. If you read about and remember what my day's journey was going to be I have to say I was successful. What did I discover? I think I'll wait another day or two to let you know.
In continued preparation for Sunday I read the next passage from this Sunday's lectionary; 1 John 3:1-7. Another interesting read, filled with images of sin and forgiveness and believing in Christ's sacrifice for our sins. Yet, in the middle of all of this hangs one word, obvious in its placement and obscure in its meaning.
Verse 3 says, "And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure." This verse ends a paragraph in which we are described as God's children for now, but that we also have no idea what is to become of us. I don't know about you, but that thought makes me a little uncomfortable. I kind of like knowing what's going to happen, especially if it's going to happen to me.
As humans we plan our lives as far out as we can. We choose when to have children and how many to have. We choose which schools they will go to. When they become of age they choose their own school and what they want to become educated in. We choose our careers, retirement, and to a certain extent our death.
But what if things don't go as planned. In today's world it doesn't take much to disrupt those plans. Downsizing by the company we work for, family members who get ill and need our care, a smaller career market and having to settle for jobs, and other things out of our control can attribute to us having to alter our best laid plans for our own lives.
Yet, as 1 John tells us, if we have hope, things will be okay. Not just hope, however, but hope in Jesus. So there it is, our word for the day; hope. Just as faith was my "word search" for yesterday, I want to make hope the same for today.
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