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Archive for March, 2010
If We Do Not Trust Him
Mar 31st
If we do not trust Him there are no wise choices at all. There is only fending for ourselves—taking what we can while we can. To me, this sounds too much like atheism.
And I am not an atheist.
If we do not trust Him then there is no reason to hope. The Christian hope has its guarantee in a powerful God. The Christian hope is a living hope. Any other—is wishful thinking. And wishful thinking is no more than a good bet.
If we do not trust Him there is no reason to bear up under the pain, nothing to stem the approaching bitterness.
I think that most of us SAY we trust Him because it is what is expected of us. How would it look if we said, “I don’t trust Him.” Who but the truly bold would be able to stand near us, reach out and touch us, look us in the eye, and tell us we are loved? Only those who have wrestled with this idea of trusting a God we cannot see, touch or feel, and have come out limping but comforted.
I realize that if you do not trust Him —none of this will make any sense, —but it More >
God With US
Mar 2nd
Without the incarnation we are alone in our plight.
We are left here as orphans to fend for ourselves.
Without the incarnation we might question that God knew
what it was like to be beaten to be hated and shunned.
We may doubt He knows what it’s like to be lonely and to be tempted to sin.
what it’s like being us.
Without the incarnation and the Word made flesh,
God’s words are mere distant commands
shouted from a place we have never been
by a being we have never known,
about things we are certain do not concern us
—words hurled from safe sterile boundaries.
And we have no reason to hope that He cares
or to take his reproach as measured by love.
If not for the person Christ
we’d have no faith worth talking about.
No reason or cause beyond just the grave,
No reason to think that justice would reign.
We’d have no reason to believe He knows what is best
or has tested His theories in life for Himself.
But we do have a God who is “with us.”
And the Word was indeed made flesh.
The suffering servant was crushed for our sins
and He purchased for us life by rising from death.
We are not left alone and His we know that He cares.
He speaks in the More >
