Word for Today

Living a sheltered life (In Christ)

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

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¹³Those who are planted in the house of the LORD

shall flourish in the courts of our God;

¹⁴they shall still bear fruit in old age;

they shall be green and succulent;

¹⁵that they may show how upright the LORD is,

my rock, in whom there is no injustice. (From Psalm 92)

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²Thus says the Lord GOD:

I myself will take a sprig

from the lofty top of a cedar;

I will set it out.

I will break off a tender one

from the topmost of its young twigs;

I myself will plant it

on a high and lofty mountain. (From Ezekiel 17)

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(the kingdom of God) 

is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;  ³²yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." (from Mark 4)

Below is the Boulderfield Shelter, also known as the Boulderfield Hotel. Elevation 12,750 feet in the mountains of Colorado. Its heyday was the late 1920's. Modest accommodations.. a four-hole privy (two for male, two for female) and a Victrola make for a welcome sight for a mountaineer.

God is our shelter. The kingdom of God is our new home. And in Christ, we live a sheltered life. It's so much better than falling victim to the elements!

Where has your hike taken you? And where did you find the Shelter which is Christ? When did you hike right past the Shelter, discovering later that you missed out on a Sheltered night of rest?

Pastor James Aalgaard
St. Paul Lutheran Church