Scripture: 2nd Samuel 14:14
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.
Thought for the Day: Brian McLaren writes in his book, The Secret Message of Jesus,
“Martin Luther King, Jr. learned what happens when you preach an inclusive message of reconciliation. Bishop Romero learned what happens when you call people to gather rather than scatter. Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela learned what happens when you try to expand the borders of who is considered ‘in’ and worthy of dignity and respect. On the one hand, if you start expanding the borders and working for a God-centered inclusive and reconciling network of relationships, you will quickly find that there are plenty of people willing to insult you, imprison you, torture you, and kill you. They prefer the rigid boundaries and impermeable walls of their narrow domains and constricted turf, not God’s purposefully inclusive kingdom that calls the least ‘the greatest’ and welcomes the outcast” (p. 169).
Those are challenging words on this MLK holiday.
Prayer: In the invitation of grace, O Holy One, I have found only open doors and a welcoming spirit. Help me to make my life resemble what I have come to know through you. Amen.
Men’s Ministry
Dinner and Study
Tuesday at 7:00pm
Cramer Center
1800 Meadow Edge Lane,
Spring, TX 77388
