Psalm 121:1-8, Ephesians 4:7-16, Luke 13:1-9

Psalm 121:1-8
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains –
from where shall come my help?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
maker of heaven and earth.
3 Will he let your foot slip,
the one watching over you?
Will he slumber?
4 No, the guardian of Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.
5 The Lord is your guardian, the Lord is at your side and you in his shade;
6 Sunstroke will not be for you by day,
nor the spell of the moon by night.
7 The Lord guards you from every evil;
he will protect your life.
8 The Lord watches over your coming and going
both now and forever.

What a  beautiful Psalm that describes our Father's loving protection of me.  I cling to You my Daddy God.  I thank You for giving me such a Savior as Jesus Your Son.  Thank You for all that You have made possible for me by creating me.  Having You my God, I have all I shall ever need or want.

Ephesians 4:7-16
7 But to each of us divine grace is given ac­cording to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it is said: When he ascended to the heights, he brought captives and gave his gifts to people.
9 He ascended, what does it mean but that he had also descended to the lower parts of the world? 10 He himself who went down, then ascended far above all the heavens to fill all things. 11As for his gifts, to some he gave to be apostles, to others prophets, or even evangelists, or pastors and teachers. 12 So he prepared those who belong to him for the ministry, in order to build up the Body of Christ, 13 until we are all united in the same faith and knowledge of the Son of God. Thus we shall become the perfect Man, upon reaching maturity and sharing the fullness of Christ.
14 Then no longer shall we be like children tossed about by any wave or wind of doctrine, and deceived by the cunning of people who drag them along into error. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we shall grow in every way towards him who is the head, Christ. 16 From him comes the growth of the whole body to which a network of joints gives order and cohesion, taking into account and making use of the function of each one. So the body builds itself in love.
What is the measure Beloved, of divine grace given to us by You?  It is immeasurable for there are no half measures with You.  When You give You give to the very lees.  Whatever gifts we have received have to be used fully in the service of all, for the glory of Your Kingdom.  To draw all in our circle of influence to You should be the aim of our existence.  As all of us who are united in the one faith, increase in our knowledge of You, Your Body the Church grows more and more in Your likeness and we become the perfect man in You.  As we grow in maturity and share the fulness of Your life in us,  nothing will shake us and we shall persevere with confidence to the end.  Truth and love will be the guiding principles that will enable us to reach fulness in You.
Luke 13:1-9
• 1 One day some persons told Jesus what had occurred in the Temple: Pilate had Galileans killed and their blood mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2 Jesus replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Gali­leans because they suffered this? 3 I tell you: no. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish as they did.
4 And those eighteen persons in Siloah who were crushed when the tower fell, do you think they were more guilty than all the others in Jeru­salem? 5 I tell you: no. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish as they did.”
6 And Jesus continued with this story, “A man had a fig tree growing in his vine­yard and he came looking for fruit on it, but found none. 7 Then he said to the gar­de­n­er: ‘Look here, for three years now I have been looking for figs on this tree and I have found none. Cut it down, why should it use up the ground?’ 8 The gardener replied: ‘Leave it one more year, so that I may dig around it and add some ferti­lizer; 9 and perhaps it will bear fruit from now on. But if it doesn’t, you can cut it down.”

In the Gospel we are told how that You make available to us all we need to grow and flourish.  You hold nothing back.  All that we need, all that we ask, You have given including Your life as our ransom.  But if we are like parasites, living only for ourselves and producing nothing for Your Kingdom, we shall be cut down and thrown into the fire; there the flame burns but does not consume or go out.  However, You give me innumerable invitations until my last breath.