Prayer: Great God, thank you for your great grace, and may we always recognize it as a gift above all others in our lives. Amen.
Reading: Romans 5:12-19 (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: Verse 15 says, “But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!” This passage speaks to the vastness of what God has done for us through his son, Jesus Christ. The gift of grace, to live eternally in God’s Kingdom despite all of our sins, is so great. This gift from God is Greater Than anything that may weigh us down in this world. I felt like I kept getting distracted while I was trying to write this reflection. I kept flipping through my old journals, and what a joyful distraction this was! Do you ever look back on past years, the trials and triumphs that they held, and see God’s hand in it all? In college a dear friend inspired me to start a prayer journal as a way to take every thought captive to Christ. I think this means to keep that Greater Than perspective, that our life is a part of God’s story, and not vice versa. The distraction ended up as the devotion, looking back on our journey thus far show us that God’s love for us will always be Greater Than _______. --Anne Harshbarger
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