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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Was on a walk reciting some verses earlier and came to 1 Thess 4. I don’t care if you’re pre-millennial, amillennial, post-millennial, a yard perennial, a bicentennial, a fan-of-Benny-Hill, a left behind or a right behind, you can’t recite these words without your pulse pumping.
“For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the
sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
Come on now, saints. It doesn’t get much better than that. That’s some fresh air right there.

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21 Dec
I keep thinking how often we on this whirling orb of thorn, dust, wind and thistle live out the reality of “hurry up & wait.” Over & over we dash around dizzily only to get ready to...wait. But it seems to me God’s way is often the reserve.

“Wait wait wait wait...

now HURRY!”
My reading this AM was Exodus 13-14. Our faith tradition is so rich. With careful, prayerful reading, the stories spring back to life on the sacred pages by the stirring of the Holy Spirit. All the waiting, wondering, crying, praying in Exodus then 13:4:”TODAY you are going out.”
The Lord had told Moses to camp facing the Red Sea. (Think of it like an enormous red stop sign.) Said to Moses, “Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: they are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.” Isn’t that how we feel sometimes? Boxed in?
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19 Dec
This morning I went back and read the letter I wrote to the Lord on January 1st, 2020. At the end of each year, I reflect on the last 12 months with the Lord, reading the letter with which it began then glancing through my journal at a year-full of written records of ups & downs.
No matter how many years this has been my practice, I’m never unmoved by it. Never without tears.

But 2020.

I can hardly even tap out these words without tears. I look back at that letter last New Year’s Day at the unavoidable naivety of a woman with no clue what was ahead.
Mind you, I’ve lived no few years & been on this journey too long & I’m too flawed, my family too messy, to ever anticipate a year bereft of difficulties, absurdities, losses, gains, heartaches, pains, joys, loves, God‘s mercy, strength, grace &, because it’s our way, laughter.
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17 Dec
Well, good people, I’ve come to the plagues in my morning Bible reading in Exodus. We’re also out of half & half so I had to use egg nog in my coffee (no, not spiked) & it’s blissful. All to say, I don’t see this thread going well. A couple of observations then I’ll leave you be.
The Lord is distinguishing himself before the Egyptians through the plagues. (I feel sure this will autocorrect to plaques when I post.) Moses makes that clear to Pharaoh when he says in 8:9, “So that you may know there is no one like the Lord our God.” The heavy hitting word I’d
like to bring to you this morning is this: God alone makes gnats. The Egyptian magicians have thus far been able to imitate the wonders wrought through the raised staff of Aaron. Then in 8:18,”The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices but they could not.”
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16 Dec
Exodus 6 this AM. One great part of reading through books of the Bible is that you come to familiar or particularly pivotal texts slowly, allowing them to arrive at their own pace & proper place instead of barging in on them. I also love getting a new Bible every 4 or 5 years so
the familiar texts aren’t already marked. I’d not thought to anticipate the “I will” declarations the Lord gave Moses to announce to the Israelites so they arrived with fresh awe.(6:6-7)
1. I will bring you out.
2. I will rescue/save you.
3. I will redeem you.
4. I will take you.
To estimate their importance to Israel, you might consider what the “I am” statements of Jesus in John’s Gospel mean to us. So crucial are these 4 divine “I will” declarations, they are centerpieces in the Jewish Passover meal. The 4 cups of wine correspond with the 4 promises.
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15 Dec
You know the old adage, “It’ll probably get worse before it gets better”? Oh, and this one: “It’s always darkest before the dawn” and, meanwhile, that coal-black night seems to go on for eons? Exodus 5 in my morning reading. If you didn’t know God was faithful, you might think
He liked getting you into trouble. Moses has returned to Egypt. Aaron’s reintroduced the former prince to the Israelite elders. Told them God has seen their misery. Moses performed a few signs. They’re bought in and bowed low in worship by the end of Exodus 4. Then Moses & Aaron
go to Pharaoh with the Lord’s message: “Let my people go.”
No. “Please.” Nope. Can’t lose my labor force. So Pharaoh commands overseers to drastically increase the Israelites’ workload without changing their daily quota. When they can’t fill it, the Israelite foremen are beaten.
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14 Dec
In Exodus now in my daily Bible reading. Chapters 3-4. God finds Moses on the far side of the wilderness. Calls to him from a burning shrub that attracts his attention—not because it’s on fire but—because the fire is not destroying it. That’s a lesson right there. There’s fire
that lights up, fire that heats, fire that draws forth the worship of God. Then there’s unholy fire that utterly destroys. The difference is obvious in its wake. God tells Moses to say to the Israelites, “I have paid close attention to you & to what has been done to you.” Always.
God is faithful. He sees. He knows. He will act. God tells Moses his name to authorize him then performs wonders to prove he’ll empower him. The former prince of Egypt replies with a line that makes me want to laugh every time I read it: “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent
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