micah is a book

Word became flesh 

[youngdisciples]

For what it’s worth, there are many times that we are always doubting the plans of God and His Will towards our lives. We are more focused on what we think is the best for us that we don’t even desire His plans anymore. The reason why we are not confident about our future is that we base our future on our own plans or our detailed desires of what we will be. Now, as we reflect on our verse today, we will be able to know that the plans of God are really perfect and the best for us. 

Paul pointed out in his letter that God works for the good of all the people who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. We have to really reflect on this and understand that God is indeed for His people. He is not against us, but He is for us. However, we need to understand what Paul meant to this when he particularly pointed out, “God’s people”. Paul did not just mean anyone, but only those people who believed in Christ as their Lord and Savior. How do we become God’s people? What should we do to be called children of God? Many verses show how we will become the people of God or be called the children of God. 

As John 1:12 says, we will have the right to be called the children of God, if we receive Christ as our Lord and Savior. Now, let us go back to our verse today, Paul actually said two requirements for this verse for us to note. The first one was what we learned earlier that we have to be the people of God. Not just merely people living here in the world, but to be the people of God. We can be people of anything. We can be people of this world or people of God. What we are called to be what kind of people shows who our master is. So, Paul particularly said that in all things, God works for those who love Him. So, the second one is that we have to be the people who love God. 

Only those who love God will be called to His good works and that loving God won’t be possible if we are not His people. Thus, we can really say that Paul did not actually give us two requirements, but he mentioned two things that won’t stand without the other. As we know, we cannot love God if we do not recognize and acknowledge Him as our Lord and Savior. We cannot love God if we hate His commands. Therefore, we cannot also say that we are the people of God if we don’t love Him and follow Him. So, as people of God who love Him, we have this confidence that God works for our good. We are called according to His purpose, so He will always be there for us. 

Again, He is for us and we can have this verse as a reassurance that our God is not a God of empty promises, but He is the God who fulfills promises. So, let us always remember to continue serving God, following Him, and loving Him as our Lord and Savior because we know now that whatever we are facing right now, everything will work well for God has promised us that. Let us continue to spread His Word, let us continue to obey Him, and let us continue to manifest Christ’s love through our lives. May the grace of God be with us always as we claim to be the people of God who love Him and are called out for His purpose. Indeed, in all things, God works for the good of us, who are called for His purpose.

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“Snoopy, come home”, 1972.

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audrey hepburn as Sabrina, singing “la vie en rose”, feeling happy and confident after she moved to Paris and upgraded herself to an attractive and sophisticated woman is a mood

[celesteapollon]

- cece (melancholicwritings)

[sweetestsecrets]

“I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little boy and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— One Night from Dito Montiel’s A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (via therealchampagnemamii)

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kathleen turner / ana mendieta / david shrigley / audre lorde

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in memory of 2020

marya hornbacher, “madness” / richard jackson, “riptide” / anis mojgani, “here i am” / heather havrilesky, “i can’t do casual” /  miklos radnoti, “foaming sky” / toni morrison, “beloved” / cheryl strayed, “tiny beautiful things” / michael wasson, “your shadow invents you every time light fails to pass through you” / alexander blok, “night. street. lamp…” / madeline miller, “circe” / 

[blessedbeyondallbelief]

[jspark3000]

The value of a person cannot rest on their usefulness.

No one must prove to be a cornerstone of their community, a pillar of their people, a positive net worth, to be a whole person or to be treated as one.

A person who contributes is pouring out of an abundance of resources they were given in an environment they did not choose by generational accomplishments they did not earn. A person who contributes is worthy of acclaim, but not inherently worth more than others, and not to be rewarded for passing on the blessing they received.

We have value apart from what we do. We are not tethered to our gifts, our purpose, our utility. We bear permanence. An image of grace.

We are called to do good, but not because it makes us good. Not to earn a point value. The good we do is an extension of the grace we were gifted. To do good is simply good in itself, just as you are too.

I have sat with so many patients who are disabled, had their livelihoods taken by disease and disaster, who cannot produce or create or move the way they had wanted.

Is there no hope for them?

Do they have no value simply because they cannot bear the metric of what the world demands as “useful”?

Are they doomed to a second rate life, a fate of failed dreams, a perpetual plan B?

I believe they matter. They feel joy, pain, heaven, and heartache as much as you or me. They have worth apart from the world’s demands and deadlines. They are more than everything that has happened to them.

It is a bonus to be able to live your dream.

It is a blessing to create, contribute, lead.

But to achieve or fail these things does not make you gold or glass.

You are marked by grace, by glory, by an image not of what you do, but simply you.

— J.S.

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(by lennart)

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses”, Blue Horses

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Films watched in 2021.

19: World of Tomorrow. Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (Don Hertzfeldt, 2020)

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

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“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

— Ephesians 6:12-13

[micah-is-a-book]

N O R I

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