“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, O
Jesus, be forever blessed
Allelujah! Allelujah!
And we are warned to set our clocks back in time, because daylight saving time ends, and we finish another try by man to set things to suit himself. But more important it is to spend a moment to think of the saints who have gone this year, or in years past.
Especially so since we also just observed the Reformation. And can think of the struggle of a Martin Luther, who really spent His life struggling
with the Church he was born in and longed to serve by correcting the doctrine
it had gotten wrong over the centuries.
Thank God we have the true faith. We
see that salvation is a real gift, it is not something we earn or deserve, it is “a gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast”. As St Paul teaches so clearly.
I remember as a lad being in a church
service and observing all saints day. And Pastor read the names of those who
died, and I knew them all, even uncle Silas who had been killed when his team
ran away and he was thrown and hit his head on a rock. A tragic time, for he was a likable young man who had a promising
life cut short.
The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon, to faithful warriors cometh rest;
Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest.
Allelujah! Allelujah!. LSB 677,1,6.
Let the day remind each of loved ones gone before us to His blessing.
GPD 11/1/14
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