Creational Theology Hint: Woodchucks, deer, moles, and other four-legged pests; dandelions, crab grass, poison ivy, and other growing pests. God's plan for the Creation or an evidence of the curse placed on man's toil as a result of original sin? I lean to the latter but believing that in the new earth we will see these pests revealed as another part of the completeness and beauty of a sin-free Creation.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Nothing of him that doth fade,/But doth suffer asea-change,/into something rich and strange,(The Tempest, by Wm. Shakespeare). The Lord Jesus is promising a sea change in the true sense of the phrase. No longer will we be called to worship in a physical location through our actions, but we will be called to worship with every aspect of our beings for we will be the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 3:16-19). Believe Him!
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 26
Mid-day: 119:113-120
Evening: Psalm 101
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