Be Stained with Red
"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31)
The first day I left school with my 'I' pinned to my chest, I was powerfully tempted to reach up and pluck it off right along with my ID badge. It didn't seem nearly as appropriate when I was leaving "teacher" mode and becoming "shopper," "neighbor," "girl-passed-on-street." And I wonder...
How I have made an idol of convenience and schedule and boxes and roles? Justice and peace and worship have their place. Yet isn't that place to fill every corner and crevice of my life? How easily I could unpin my reminder. But may I, instead, today, this season, be stained with red and reminded of death so that I may also remember the life-giving glory of God. May
whatever I do be tinted the scarlet of innocent blood, sunsets, and sunrises.
"To God be the glory, great things he has done. So loved He the world..."
The first day I left school with my 'I' pinned to my chest, I was powerfully tempted to reach up and pluck it off right along with my ID badge. It didn't seem nearly as appropriate when I was leaving "teacher" mode and becoming "shopper," "neighbor," "girl-passed-on-street." And I wonder...
How I have made an idol of convenience and schedule and boxes and roles? Justice and peace and worship have their place. Yet isn't that place to fill every corner and crevice of my life? How easily I could unpin my reminder. But may I, instead, today, this season, be stained with red and reminded of death so that I may also remember the life-giving glory of God. May
whatever I do be tinted the scarlet of innocent blood, sunsets, and sunrises.
"To God be the glory, great things he has done. So loved He the world..."
posted by Tim Otto at 1:31 PM
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