Soul Care New Every Morning from The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development in Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Thursday, 8 October 2015 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Soul Care New Every Morning from The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development in Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Thursday, 8 October 2015 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."
Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed at that moment.
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence.[Wendell Berry]
Pray Together with Us:
Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask thee to say
Close by me for ever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in thy tender care;
And fit us for heaven to live with thee there.[John MacFarland]
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