Wednesday, April 16, 2025
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. ~ Titus 2:11-13
Written by Pat Malpiedi | Pinnacle Member
I was reflecting on something I heard recently in our adult Sunday School, “The only thing that matters is faith energized through love.” (Galatians 5:6) I was also thinking about Pastor Leah’s sermon on “How we walk.”
We live in a unique and extraordinary time, an in-between time. Jesus Christ came and lived fully human among us; he taught, he was condemned, crucified and resurrected. Through God’s grace and at the cost of his Son, our sins are forgiven and salvation given. That’s all happened, and that’s a lot!
At the other end is the ‘not yet happened’ or ‘yet to come.’ Yet to come is the return of our God and Savior Jesus Christ and the completion of his new and glorious kingdom.
Here and now or the in-between time we have an opportunity to practice all the lessons that Jesus taught, the words the Bible speaks to us and the prophets preached. And that’s a lot! How do we do that? We practice.
We practice living out a faith that celebrates the knowledge of God’s love for us. A love so deep that he gave his only son. A love so big that he wants to spend an eternity with us. We practice living out the call to be the body of Christ, to be his hands and feet here on earth. We practice living out acts of faith by loving our God and all his children.
We practice living in faith energized through love. We practice.
Prayer: Teach us, Lord, to practice a faith imbued with Love! Amen.