On this '8th day', considering three of the things we hear the Spirit saying to God's people:
1) Walking right through barriers we keep up out of fear, our risen Lord breaths on us the very breath of God, compelling us to be born anew to a living hope.
2) We’re not to hold on to resentments toward others – retaining such ill will becomes toxic not just in our hearts, but festers like an infected sore in our collective body. Forgive others.... and experience forgiveness ourselves by opening our hearts to the grace coming from our risen Lord.
3) When doubts and times of trial test our faith, if we press forward together in love and with hope, our faith can become more genuine and mature, like gold passing through fire, fundamentally remaining unharmed while also becoming further refined and pure as more of the crap is burned away.
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