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4th Sunday In Lent, Year B
Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Mar 23, 2003 (message contributor)
Summary: One of the most siginificant paradoxes of our faith is that we’re saved by God’s grace alone; yet God created us for good works.
The rooster looked at the dog with surprise, and said, “I know that! I didn’t make the sun, and I can’t raise the sun. Only God can do that.”
“Then why in the world,” asked the dog, “do you get up in the dark every day to holler your lungs out?”
The rooster eyed the dog disdainfully and said, “God gave me a voice. If God is going to raise the sun into the sky, the least I can do is to use my gift to show my appreciation.” 2
Only God can create us; only God can save us; only God can give us the ability to do good works our whole life long; which is our response to what Christ has done for us all on the cross. For that, thanks be to God! Amen.
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1 Cited from: Emphasis March 1985, Vol. 14, No. 10, (Lima, OH: C.S.S. Publishing Co., Inc., 1985), p. 21.
2 Cited from: Faye Neff, “Raised from the Dead,” in The Clergy Journal, January 2003, Vol. LXXX, No. 3 (Inver Grove Heights, MN: Logos Productions Inc., 2003), p. 39.
