Today’s Lectionary Readings: Psalm 87 & 48; Proverbs 7:1-27; Luke 19:41-48; Romans 8:9-17
As I continue easing into the new week, today’s passage from Romans gave me a great way to think about how I might approach the days ahead. In speaking of the life to which we have been called, Eugene Peterson translates Paul’s words from Romans8:15 as follows: “This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike ‘What’s next Papa?’” Paul’s words give us a helpful way to think about how we approach life during our regular week/workweek. Do we take a cautious approach – carefully measuring out our resources so that we’ll enough just enough to slide by until the end of the week (our Friday), or do we take an “adventurously expectant” approach toward life that causes us to take risks – living each day as if it were the equivalent of Friday? My hope for us this week is that we’ll follow Paul’s advice and take an "adventurously expectant" approach toward all our days. Til next time…
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