I recently began reading a book by D. Platt called Radical. It has changed my Christian view and my opinion of the American Dream. America's dream is so contradictory to the life Jesus called us to. I hope to explore God's call for me in this coming year and how most of the time His call is hard and crazy, but good.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Moving Forward
I have been thinking that God’s love is terrible. Think of what it includes: us, with our best and our worst, with our failed attempts and outright cruelty, with our wrong motives for right actions and our right motives for wrong actions... us, with the mess we have made of the world, with our brokenness and despair, with our rebellions and inadequacies. We are the ones included in and redeemed by the deep and wide love of God. It astonishes me that Christ died for me while I was still a sinner! (Romans 5:8). Why does He choose to give me new mercies every single morning when I am wicked compared to His amazing perfection? I think God sent Jesus to pass through our world as a figure of light and truth, sometimes angry and sometimes merciful, but always just, effective and loving. His life was spent around those who drew disapproval from many, yet he was never insecure or ashamed of His desire to offer them His love and promise His kingdom. I feel sometimes that I am that undesirable. I feel like the woman who was brought to Jesus to be stoned when found in sin. It humbles me that Jesus simply wants me to hand over my life in complete confidence and simply be satisfied in Him. If I desire peace, certainty and transparency in my life I have to give Him everything. Lord, help me abandon myself, continuing to surrender my insecurities and failures. Make me see your faithfulness and sufficiency in my life each day.
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