Sunday, September 11, 2011
A Post for September 11
It is like a curse- to be so good at consistently investing with meaning those things which may have no meaning except what we give to them.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Seen and the Unseen
I want to live out the spiritual realities captured in Romans 6.
We know deep inside that there is an ever-present transcendence to our lives; that our soul is reaching out always for something more. We do this in relationships- we dodge, jump back, counter, hoping to experience impact and significance. We are reaching out for more...
On the other hand, we have to take out the trash, wash the dishes, clean the...well, you know.
On Wednesday it may be hard to see oneself as an intersection of the seen and the unseen. No matter what day it is, the promise is true..."Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him."
In seeing beyond the circumstances, we can realize that there is more at stake than just one's own fate. We see sanctification, and truthful relationships with impact and significance. "But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you (collective) derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Both the seen and the unseen call us to simply live with trust in God's provision for us all. There are no "simple answers to complex questions." That would be the seen denying the unseen. That would be enslavement to sin, as if nothing spiritually significant had ever happened in and through history.
We know deep inside that there is an ever-present transcendence to our lives; that our soul is reaching out always for something more. We do this in relationships- we dodge, jump back, counter, hoping to experience impact and significance. We are reaching out for more...
On the other hand, we have to take out the trash, wash the dishes, clean the...well, you know.
On Wednesday it may be hard to see oneself as an intersection of the seen and the unseen. No matter what day it is, the promise is true..."Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him."
In seeing beyond the circumstances, we can realize that there is more at stake than just one's own fate. We see sanctification, and truthful relationships with impact and significance. "But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you (collective) derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Both the seen and the unseen call us to simply live with trust in God's provision for us all. There are no "simple answers to complex questions." That would be the seen denying the unseen. That would be enslavement to sin, as if nothing spiritually significant had ever happened in and through history.
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