ASLC Devotions -- Tuesday

Zephaniah 3:9 At that time I will change the speech of the peoples
   to a pure speech,
that all of them may call on the name of the Lord
   and serve him with one accord.

Picture that great day when all the pain and all the suffering and all the division and all the wars come to an end in the world. John Lennon sang and invited people to imagine a world without religion... in his vision of paradise and hopefulness there was no religion. While John Lennon was a musical genius I think he missed it on that point. Zephaniah invites us to imagine a world not without religion, but without religions. Zephaniah invites us to imagine a world where all the religions of the world are brought together. Zephaniah invites us to imagine a place where our feeble attempts to talk about God and our experiences with God are cleansed. Zephaniah invites us to imagine a world where all peoples call on the name of the Lord and serve the Lord with one will and one purpose in mind.

Any talk about God is necessarily incomplete. We use human (limited and finite) language to talk about someone who is by definition limitless and infinite. No human words can really capture the glory and the majesty and the mercy and the love that is God. I'm aware of that each day I sit down to write one of these devotional messages or to write a sermon. I look forward to the day when all of us have our speech about God purified and we are able to experience, to know, and to worship God in truth and in wholeness.

In Christ,
Pastor Seth

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