Please Call Me

Nkosana Kenneth Makate created the famous 'please call me' service through one of South Africa's cellphone providers. The simple tool means that we can send a free message to someone, asking them to give us a call when they can. 

We are reminded of a similar thing in Jeremiah 33, but obviously on a grander scale. The Lord sends each of us an invitation to 'please call him' when we need. And this invitation is not because God has run out of money :) 

·    "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ – Jeremiah 33:3.

      God invited Jeremiah and all who heard this message to come to Him in faith-filled prayer, confident of His answer. This promise is what we need to reflect on in this season of Advent. We are invited to trust in the grace of Christ and to call on the name of the Lord. 

·     Psalm 4:3 - You can be sure of this: The Lord set apart the godly for himself. The Lord will answer when I call to him.

Acts 2:21 - But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Living in Grace

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Grace me...

How would you finish this sentence?
"Grace me ...."
I am sure a few of us included words like - "Grace me .... with your presence"
OR "Grace me ....with your attention/time."

I find it interesting that when Eugene Peterson reflects on Psalm 4:1, he doesn't even bother finishing the sentence - he leaves it as it is.

When I call, give me answers. God, take my side!
Once, in a tight place, you gave me room;
Now I’m in trouble again: grace me! hear me!

As I re-read the verse I am struck by the fact that the two words "GRACE ME" make enough sense on their own. The speak loudly to me today. What about you?

Living in Grace
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Hungry for more

"Why is everyone hungry for more? 
“More, more,” they say.
“More, more.”
 

I have God’s more-than-enough,
More joy in one ordinary day than they get in all their shopping sprees.

 
At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep,For you, God, have put my life back together." - Psalm 4:6-8

It is very hard to go against the flow of the majority at Christmas time. People are caught up in the whole 'more, more, more' mindset and we can so easily follow suit. The challenge for all of us to get to the place where we can say - "God is more than enough!"

Living in Grace

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