Feb 19
None of us are on this journey around the Sun alone. 7+ Billion people share our planet, and the truth is that throughout the World, throughout your Country, and even in your Neighborhood and church, there are people who disagree with you on the matters you hold closest.
and yet… they will know us by our love.
On this journey around the Sun, we can choose to be peacemakers and uniters, people following Jesus’ lead and extending the same Grace that has been offered to us. We can be the agents of reconciliation in a World that grows more divided by the day, starting with the relationships right in front of us. This is our call, this is our opportunity, this is us.
Scripture References
Book IV
Psalms 90–106
Psalm 90
A prayer of Moses the man of God.
1.Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
2.Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3.You turn people back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4.A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5.Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6.In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7.We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8.You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9.All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
10.Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11.If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12.Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13.Relent, Lord! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
14.Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15.Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16.May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
17.May the favor90:17 Or beauty of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
18.If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
15.Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
1.A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
27.The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,
and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
16.For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
9.Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10.and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
26.So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27.for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28.There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.