Friday March 11th & Saturday March 12th –
Read Genesis 7. Sin had gotten so out of control that God, the Sea-Tamer, unleashed the sea on the world. But he threw Noah a life preserver.
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Thursday March 10th – Can anything stop the sin tsunami?
‘For the wages of sun is death, but the gift of God’s is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord’ Romans 6:23
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Tuesday March 8th and Wednesday March 9th – Read Genesis 3. The incident in the Garden with Adam and Eve and the Snake — the fall into Sin; the resulting expulsion from Eden — would be like sailing out of an idyllic lagoon into the turbulent waters of a raging sea… and then being barred from re-entering the harbour by the Harbour Master … without a BOAT!
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Monday March 7, 2022 – God is the great Sea-Tamer. Which probably makes the Garden of Eden God’s ultimate harbour: a safe, protected port of call. Paradise!
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Sunday March 6th (First Sunday of Lent & Communion) – The very first theme in the Bible is that God is a great tamer of seas. Can you think, already, of other Bible stories when this theme will come up?
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Saturday March 5th – Chaos is there, it’s true. But GOD is there, too. One of the very first images the Bible gives us is the image of gentle breezes over stormy seas. GOD’S gentle breezes
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Friday March 4th – Today, read Genesis and 1:1-2. The chaos that existed before “The Beginning” is described as being WATERY.
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We begin Lent with a reminder of death. Your death and mine. We are dust. But God has charted a course — a plan for our salvation. God even sent a Navigator, Jesus, to guide us through Lent. It’s good that somebody has a plan for this nautical trip through Lent. Because the ashes on our foreheads mean that we don’t even have a boat.
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