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We are either living a little more or dying a little bit, ad Norman Mailer put it. Human logic is based on human experience and human nature. Yahweh does not conform to this model. If Israel is unfaithful, God remains faithful against all logic and all limits of justice because He is.
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Jesus has journeyed to the far reaches of loneliness. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision.
The Scriptures offer no other basis for conversion than the personal magnetism of the Master. Trust at the mercy of the response it receives is a bogus trust. Consequently all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo repentance and pseudo bliss.
It requires a strong sense of our redeemed selves to pass up the opportunity to appear graceful and good to other persons.
His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them.
On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. But faith knows where to take them. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
He personally sees to our needs. May you be encouraged and inspired by these verses! I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut.
I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 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, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore, the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.