bless your servant

And now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant; now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue for ever before you; for you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed for ever.’ (2 Samuel 7:28-29, NRSV)

The words of the Lord are definitely true and in them He has promised many good good things to His servants.

He has promised to bless His servants.

SO if you are serving the Lord, you and your house will be blessed.

May God bless you and keep you, may His face shine upon you and may He be gracious unto you, may He look upon you with favor and give you peace!

save us

But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand, the one whom you made strong for yourself. Then we will never turn back from you; give us life, and we will call on your name. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved. (Psalm 80:17-19, NRSV)

Give us life and we will call on your name!

Restore us and let you face shine on us!

Bless us through the one who is at your right hand.

Send us your right hand man and show us how to live and help us to follow you and to have faith and trust in all of your promises so we might be a beacon of Your hope, mercy and grace in this dark world!

leveled…

Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:23-29, NRSV)

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female;

There is no distinction between any of us any more. All of the major separators of Jesus day are here/

All of us are equal in the eyes of God.

We have all sinned and fallen short and held up by the same faith.

Therefore we need to treat each other as God treats us. And not how society wants us to.

For we are all the same in the eyes of God!

Restored

When Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever; he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were sick. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, ‘He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.’ (Matthew 8:14-17, NRSV)

Jesus healed Peter’s Mother-in-law and restored her to her right place.

Now before you get all women’s rights on me, in Jesus time the woman took care of the house and by Peter’s mother-in-law being sick, she could not do what society expected her to do. She was not able to do her part to keep society moving forward.

Jesus took her out of her illness, her dis-ease and made her whole and allowed her to be who society needed her to be.

Jesus heals us all and restores us to how he created us to do what we need to in society.

falling

Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen. (Jude 24-25, NRSV)

We would not be able to stand if it were not for the one who came to show us how to live.

We would fall flat on our faces, but that should not keep us from going.

Without Him we will fail, but with Him we will be as He has created us, a beacon of His mercy and grace for all the world!