(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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Too clever for God?
Some times we make the facile assumption that God does not know what shenanigans we are up to. Way back, Cain slayed his brother Abel and spoke with impertinence when God asked him what he had done. Instigated by his mother, Jacob pulled a fast one on his father Esau (leaving God out altogether), and till today we are reading about his duplicity. David waxed philosophical while sending Uriah to certain death; God (and Joab) were not fooled. Ananias and Sapphira thought they could deceive the apostles, but the Holy Spirit would have none of it.
You are a fool if you think you can deceive God!
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*22 Aug, setting 1 January as Day 1