I. Readings
Psalms 49, 96, 138
Daniel 3:1-18
1 John 3:1-10
Luke 3:15-22
II. Selections
Psalm 49:8-9
For the ransom of life is costly,
and can never suffice
that one should live on forever
and never see the grave.
Daniel 3:17
" ...If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and out of your hand, O king, let him deliver us. ... " [ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to Nebuchadnezzar]
1 John 3:2a
Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.
Luke 3:17
" ...His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." [ John to the people, speaking of the one who was coming after him]
III. Meditation: After the winnowing fork
We will not live forever; all will see the grave.
We are your children now. What will we be? ;
Chaff doomed to burn with unquenchable fire?
Are you able to deliver from the furnace blaze? ;
When you clear the threshing floor, will we all
be gathered safely into your granary as wheat? ;
What we will be has not yet been revealed, but
surely, even then we still will be your children.
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