God’s Favor
How do we balance our understanding of God’s justice and righteous anger over the world’s brokenness and sin with God’s favor, rescue, and redemption?
God’s righteous anger over the enemy’s work in this world and in our lives is real. God’s favor is also real. While we encounter God’s anger, encounter grief, and encounter darkness, the dawn of God’s favor, light, love, and joy is coming. God’s favor will last a lifetime.
The Psalmist writes, “For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” (Psalm 30:5, ESV).
May we anticipate God’s favor, even in the middle of our grief and weeping, and may we experience God’s joy which comes in the morning as the darkness recedes.
A Collect for Resurrection Hope: “Lord God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ triumphed over the powers of death and prepared for us our place in the new Jerusalem: Grant that we, who have this day given thanks for his resurrection, may praise you in that City of which he is the light, and where he lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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