Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Bible Reading Easter Season

This morning I posted on  St. John's Bible Reading Challenge Facebook:

It was bound to happen.  After Lent discipline moves into Easter Season, I have fallen behind on the daily ready challenge.  I am catching up.

Romans 5:21 from The Message reads, "All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life--a life that goes on and on and on, world without end."

So what about those do to lists, do they save us?  What about the jammed packed schedules and all the good we do for others, does that bring us life?  While we might find meaning there and joy and connection, life begins and continues because "...God is putting everything together again through the Messiah..."