Thursday, December 17
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33
The prophet Jeremiah is speaking of a change in the way God’s people will know who God is. The covenant God made with Moses was being disobeyed. Now God will provide another way to see who God is and the love God has for the people. The law will no longer appear on stone tablets, but upon the hearts of God’s people.
The covenant Jeremiah proclaims is here and now. We have the opportunity to establish a permanent loving relationship with God through Christ and the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. This new relationship is founded on the grace of God through Christ: God’s free unconditional love given to all through Christ. It is God’s grace, God’s love, God’s life and light to all God’s people. In our relationships, in our hearts, and in our love, God lives.
The ministries and services of Liberty Lutheran are an extension of this relationship with God and love for neighbor. As a Disaster Spiritual Partner, I am privileged to be a point of contact and support in times of tragedy or disasters which occur within our neighbors’ lives. Disaster Spiritual Partners accompany our sisters and brothers in Christ to comfort the hurting and brokenhearted and to find ways of extending God’s love to the community. Our ministry is the extended hand of God in love, light, and life to all.
Loving and gracious God, you dwell within our hearts, you light our way, and we live in service to you and our neighbor. Amen.
Rev. Barry Spatz is pastor of Jacobs Lutheran Church and Outwood Lutheran Church in Pine Grove. He serves as a Disaster Spiritual Partner with Lutheran Disaster Response – Eastern PA.
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