Daily Worship

Campfire moments

Alec Shuttleworth January 28, 2017 0 0

Hebrews 13:20-21

Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

All this week we have been looking for those campfire moments; those moments when we are sure and secure and can rest in the comfort of our faith rather than struggle. We have thought of original blessing replacing sometimes our obsession with original sin, thought about being more willing to accept God’s promises at face value, thought about the abundance of God’s promise, thought of the abundance of God’s promise, our reliance on God, and our some time tendency to struggle our faith rather than live it.

Yesterday we thought about Paul, finding happiness and fulfilment in prison, today I want to return to blessing, and this sign off from the writer of Hebrews. The writer of Hebrews seeks out the deep roots of the Christian Good News in the Hebrew Bible, in the faith of chosen people. His whole thesis is that Jesus, life death and resurrection is the culmination of God’s plan from the beginning. Our blessing is the realisation that hard as we work, hopefully, and faithfully as we live, and lovingly as we meet, it is God who makes us “complete in everything good.”

 

I am God’s created

Breathed with His Spirit

Loved by his son.

 

I am the threefold promise of grace

I am the focus of his love today

 

In this, today, I am not alone

 

We are God’s created

Breathed with His Spirit

Loved by his son

 

We are the threefold promise of grace

We are the focus of his love today

 

In this, today, God of Peace

May we find peace.

In this today, great shepherd

May we be securely enfolded in your love

In this today, author of the covenant

May we be bold to proclaim the word of love.

 

That you are God’s created

Breathed with his spirit

Loved by his son

 

In this today 

May all find peace.

 

Amen