faith looks forward to a new creation

Morning: Psalm 22; Jeremiah 29:1, 4-13; Romans 11:13-24

Evening: Psalms 141, 143:1-11; John 11:1-27

Jesus often surprises people and overturns their expectations – he doesn’t come when called, or he steps in when they warn him it’s dangerous to do so.  He encourages people into the daylight that he brings ... like, ‘stick with me and you’ll see the way.’  Mary laments, ‘if only you had been here, our brother would not have died.’ But Jesus directs people not backwards in a lament for what might have been, but forwards to a future grounded in the faith that ‘if Jesus is who he says he is’, a new creation is being born.