Blessing for June 5th 2008

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I will listen to what God the Lord will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints - but let them not return to folly. (Psalm 85:12)

So what is the Lord promising? Peace, of course! And for whom- for his saints. Well, we may not have the St. before our names, but that is how God sees us and that is how God wants us to be.

But look at the last part of the verse. It says, "let not the saints return to folly." Saints and folly do not go together. It sounds so un-saintely.

Yet, that's the truth. The Apostle Paul, in some of his letters to different churches begins by addressing the believers in those churches as saints and then goes on to pen their present follies.And the list of follies is quite long.

This is what Paul wrote to the holy and faithful brethren in Colosse:

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:5-10)

The last part explains it all. It's all about renewal. Being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

So let us not return to folly, but submit ourselves to God and experience the peace that comes from that submission. God bless.