I didn't post on Tuesday because I was with a friend of mine, Knowledge, who was involved in a motorcycle accident Monday evening on his way back home. He has some swelling in the side of his head, along with multiple fractures in his forearm and clavicle-area. I was with him for much of Tuesday afternoon, into the evening. Please lift him up in your prayers, that God would heal him thoroughly, and soon. Pray also that someone would come to a saving knowlege of God through this incident. The accident took place near Nkwanta, but Knowledge was transferred south to the Volta Region's hospital in the city of Ho, where he is able to receive better medical attention.
Why, after proving the Lord's life to be satisfying, do we go back to what we once knew, attempting to make our own lives in each of our own images. Is it because we hope against hope that we might just have paid God his proper dues, enough so that we can afford to sidestep his statutes? You know, we have done enough for this God of ours. He should be fine for a while. Besides, how could he be that angry, since we have served so dutifully or for so long? He should just back off. I mean really, how much of our lives does this guy really want?
Perhaps our temptation has never really left, meaning our desire is not entirely conformed to holiness, and only time (not some spurt of godliness) ever really separated sin from sin? As if dedication to the one, true King were a heavy burden, nearly unbearable and we need, if only for a moment, a brief respite from "it all," to fill our time cards and clock out, so we can dabble in our own machinations and continue eeking out a semblance of substance from our own resources. We, in all actuality, are not living from glory to glory, but from resigned purposelessness to desparation to decisive determination to ambivalent longing and back again.
Or, maybe, we are not, in reality, satisfied. Like King Solomon, we dare not forsake offering sacrifices to Jehovah. Instead, we build shrines to the other, lesser deities, in hopes that the Almighty will not mind, seeing that he is not threatened by them anyway. "Thou shall not worship any other gods more than me," if I remember correctly. God is a jealous god, so pay him a lot more attention. God is the source of all good things, and in him we find our sufficiency...kind of like we might find in a dad. We can ask for anything, but sometimes we would rather go to mom, not to mention Grandma, Auntie, or Great Uncle. You expect us to believe that we are am not allowed to diversify our portfolios. Everyone knows not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The issue is being who we are called to be. First Peter 1:16 says we are called to be holy, because God is holy. If God is holy, and his Spirit has taken up residence in those who confess the Son's lordship and believe in his resurrection, then those confessors and believers are, by virtue of indwelling holiness, made holy. So then, we who confess and believe the aforementioned are to be holy because we have been made holy, not because we want to be called holy by God. Because of Jesus Christ, God calls us. What God calls us, we are. What we are, thus we live.
"I don't wanna be so holy that my temptations pose no threat to a thriving, dynamic relationship with God Almighty. I wanna be holy, wholly. Solely wholly holy."
Why, after proving the Lord's life to be satisfying, do we go back to what we once knew, attempting to make our own lives in each of our own images. Is it because we hope against hope that we might just have paid God his proper dues, enough so that we can afford to sidestep his statutes? You know, we have done enough for this God of ours. He should be fine for a while. Besides, how could he be that angry, since we have served so dutifully or for so long? He should just back off. I mean really, how much of our lives does this guy really want?
Perhaps our temptation has never really left, meaning our desire is not entirely conformed to holiness, and only time (not some spurt of godliness) ever really separated sin from sin? As if dedication to the one, true King were a heavy burden, nearly unbearable and we need, if only for a moment, a brief respite from "it all," to fill our time cards and clock out, so we can dabble in our own machinations and continue eeking out a semblance of substance from our own resources. We, in all actuality, are not living from glory to glory, but from resigned purposelessness to desparation to decisive determination to ambivalent longing and back again.
Or, maybe, we are not, in reality, satisfied. Like King Solomon, we dare not forsake offering sacrifices to Jehovah. Instead, we build shrines to the other, lesser deities, in hopes that the Almighty will not mind, seeing that he is not threatened by them anyway. "Thou shall not worship any other gods more than me," if I remember correctly. God is a jealous god, so pay him a lot more attention. God is the source of all good things, and in him we find our sufficiency...kind of like we might find in a dad. We can ask for anything, but sometimes we would rather go to mom, not to mention Grandma, Auntie, or Great Uncle. You expect us to believe that we are am not allowed to diversify our portfolios. Everyone knows not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The issue is being who we are called to be. First Peter 1:16 says we are called to be holy, because God is holy. If God is holy, and his Spirit has taken up residence in those who confess the Son's lordship and believe in his resurrection, then those confessors and believers are, by virtue of indwelling holiness, made holy. So then, we who confess and believe the aforementioned are to be holy because we have been made holy, not because we want to be called holy by God. Because of Jesus Christ, God calls us. What God calls us, we are. What we are, thus we live.
"I don't wanna be so holy that my temptations pose no threat to a thriving, dynamic relationship with God Almighty. I wanna be holy, wholly. Solely wholly holy."
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