Prayer: Creator and nurturing God, you hold me up when I stumble. You guide me when I wander off course. You call me righteous even though I am unworthy. May I have faith in your promises and trust in your judgment. May I be the servant you see. Amen.
Reading: Romans 4: 13-25 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Faith. It can be so hard to have faith, keep faith, be faithful. Believing in what seems impossible. Trusting and staying true to an ideal which should not—cannot—be realized… can it? Thank God He has faith in us. Abraham and Sarah were no more or less perfect than many of us. They did not follow every rule. Read their story and you will see two people who make mistakes, interject their human schedules into God’s plans, and stumble often on their way to fulfilling His promises for them. But because they have faith in those promises, He deems them righteous. Such generous judgment of these two can give hope to the rest of us. Are we righteous? I don’t think of myself as particularly virtuous, and certainly not without sin or blame. But Jesus reminds us that with faith the size of a mustard seed, we can move mountains. With God, nothing is impossible. And, as God created all, including me, I’ll try to believe in myself and in His vision. --Heather LeBlanc
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