GPS for the week of May 18th, 2025
“For The Lord God Will Be Their Light”
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Our Lord has promised to be with us as we rejoice in his grace
and the gift of the Holy Spirit. We often have doubts and feelings
of darkness, but God has promised to be with us and light our way
in this world.
Dear Lord, help us to be bold. Thank you for our Holy Spirit
in our lives. Amen
Monday 5.19 “The Lord opened her heart to listen
eagerly.”
Acts 16:9-15
“During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of
Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to
Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we
immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced
that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. We
set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the
following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a
leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We
remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went
outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a
place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who
had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper
of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and
a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen
eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household
were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be
faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she
prevailed upon us.” Lydia’s heart and home were opened by the
good news of life in Jesus.
Tuesday 5.20 “Let all the ends of the earth revere him.”
Psalm 67
“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to
shine upon us, Selah, that your way may be known upon earth,
your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you,
O God; let all the peoples praise you. Let the nations be glad and
sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the
nations upon earth. Selah. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let
all the peoples praise you. The earth has yielded its increase;
God, our God, has blessed us. May God continue to bless us; let
all the ends of the earth revere him.” We join people from every
place on earth to sing God’s praises.
Wednesday 5.21 “They will be my children.”
Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven
and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of
God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they
will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe
every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and
crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed
away.’ And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I
am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this, for these
words are trustworthy and true.’ Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the
thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God
and they will be my children. But as for the cowardly, the
faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the
sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake
that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.’” God
will make us bold and truthful as we face our weakness and
become his children.
Thursday 5.22 “The glory of God is its light.”
Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5
“Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the
seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you
the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ And in the spirit he carried me
away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city
Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God… I saw no
temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and
the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. The
nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring
their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day—and there
will be no night there. People will bring into it the glory and the
honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone
who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are
written in the Lamb’s book of life…” This holy city Jerusalem
shines with the light of God’s grace.
Friday 5.23 “They will need no light of lamp or sun.”
Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as
crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through
the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is
the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each
month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the
nations. Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the
throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will
worship him; they will see his face, and his name will be on their
foreheads. And there will be no more night; they need no light of
lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign
forever and ever.” We worship our Lord in the light of his
goodness.
Saturday 5.24 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to
you.”
John 14:23-29
“Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and
my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our
home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my
words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the
Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while I am
still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of
all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I
give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let
your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard
me say to you, “I am going away, and I am coming to you.” If you
loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,
because the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this
before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.’”
God will bring us peace as we quietly accept his grace in our lives.