By Human Measure

Culling the faithful
setting up criteria
by human measures
judging other people

Forgetting divine grace
God’s redeeming by love
cleaving to the law
as if that can restore

False measures only
under the new covenant
the blood of the lamb
healing us by faith

Only to believe
baptized into the waters
guiding by the Spirit’s calling
out into the world

Doing our part
using our gifts, our talents
sharing our witness
God’s grace in the days
all the days of our lives

November 12, 2010
Galatians 4
&
Galatians 4:4
Galatians 4:1-5
&
Day 240, “The Fullness of Time”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
read June 3, 2010
&
Ephesians 1:4
Ephesians 1:3-10
&
Day 248, “Divine Anticipation”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
read June 3, 2010

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