Read this first:
You are radiant with light,
more majestic than mountains rich with game.
Recently had a friend say on line at one of my favorite spots in the sawtooth mountains that it was overrated. It’s easy to love mountains. They just sit there and look pretty. It’s hard to love people and yet God thinks they’re greater than the mountains. Yes God is our rock the place where our help comes from but that’s where the analogy breaks down. You can only receive from mountains. You can’t really give to them and they can’t really give anything back. It’s a bit of a once sided- hey you look nice relationship. It’s a bit shallow.
It’s hard to love God. It’s hard to love people. It’s easy to love yourself. It’s easy to loath yourself. Yet God calls us to be greater and better. We’re called to love God and our sinful neighbors.
Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
let all the neighboring lands
bring gifts to the One to be feared.
We can give gifts to God when we give to our neighbor. We can give Him praise in song and so much more.
Yet it’s so freaking hard this year. We’ve become consumed with the problems and judgement rather than grace and love. We’ve been forced to be alone and often fall in line with broad political solutions to very specific problems where the political solution may have done nothing to solve the specific problem. The solution is Jesus and it’s love and the problem is sadly inside of me and you and until we can see that- I don’t see how any political solution is going to help.
Marking It Up 