Tuesday 19 February 2013

Turn Around God! - Lent 6



We often reflect on how we need to turn to God (which is true). Repentance comes from the word 'metanoia' which means 'to turn around' or 'turn back'. In a different spin on this word picture, we read in Psalm 6, how David begs God to turn around.

"Turn,  Lord , and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love." - Psalm 6:4

It is almost as if David imagines that God has turned his back on him. David longs for God to be moved by love and to rescue him from his distress. 

Do you feel that God has turned his back on you?

I assure you that he has not turned his back on us and that Jesus remembers us through his unfailing love. When Jesus glances at his scars and wounds he remembers us by name. How can he turn from the people he gave his life for?

Remember these old familiar words:

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in his wonderful face,
And the things of the earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of his glory and grace."
William Stafford - “What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?”

Living in Grace
D3LM3

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