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Upper Room Daily Reflections Practicing Silence

Today’s Reflection
I KNOW GOD doesn’t only communicate in the silence. I believe God speaks to us through the whole of our life. But silence creates space for us to practice listening for God so that we may better experience God’s presence in all areas. Silence is a spiritual practice that prepares us to receive mothering as a spiritual practice. It is a practice I need help practicing.

—Lauren Burdette
This Life That Is Ours: Motherhood As Spiritual Practice

Yardstick

Genesis 15:6

6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Today’s Reflection

RIGHTEOUSNESS is not a yardstick to separate us from others. Righteousness comes as a gift from Christ, who reconciles us not only with God but with all the other characters Christ joins at table and calls to follow.

—John Indermark
Gospeled Lives: Encounters with Jesus

Upper Room Daily Reflections Come and See

Today’s Reflection WE ARE SO EAGER to have folks busily engaged in the work of going and telling and doing that we fail to provide the needed preparatory time of experiencing grace and community. We rush to get new members connected through this committee or that task force as soon as possible, either in hopes of buoying up depleted ranks or in fear of losing the new ones out the back door. In some settings, folks are not even members when we sweep them into teaching Sunday school or serving on a mission board or . . . you get the picture. Perhaps you have even been the picture. We hurriedly involve people in calls and ministries, sometimes without allowing them to linger in the gift of come and see. How can we be spokespersons or exemplars of a faith that we have not taken the time to experience for ourselves? —John Indermark Gospeled Lives: Encounters with Jesus

Charles Stanley March 24, 2019 — THE TRAPS OF THE DEVIL

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In Need of Grace

Mar 26, 2019 12:00 am

Today’s Reflection

GRACE was the basis for Jesus’ breaking bread with the disreputable of his time, the very sort of ones we point out to our children and say: that’s what could happen to you if you make bad choices or hang around in the wrong company. Ironically such grace that calls Levi and practices table fellowship with those other characters is the same grace that aims to include the offended righteous. Self-avowed states of righteousness can close us off from recognizing the need for grace in our lives. Jesus was not disinterested in good and righteous folk. Rather, his overarching concern was—and is—to reach those in need of grace.

—John Indermark
Gospeled Lives: Encounters with Jesus