Monday, April 16, 2012
The Ultimate!
When God did what He had promised, by a seed of David, He did the ultimate good! Christ, the Messiah, King of the World, the King of the Kingdom of Light, the King of Good: by his rule, in his character, his life and all He did and continues to do, we see goodness at it's ultimate. He is the ultimate forgiver, gracious giver, the ultimate self-giver, the ultimate hope for the future of God's world. Everything about Him is at its climax, high point, optimum, peak, summit, zenith! All good a person can do from His point forwards are echoes and reverberations of his ultimate good.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Being truly human
'We are to be for the world what Jesus was for Israel' . NT Wright
That makes a lot of sense. Jesus lived to show his contemporaries of what it is to be a member of Israel- God's people, God's kingdom- and warned them of what it is not like. It was healing the sick; being at the place where sin and death had ravaged and bringing to that place healing life; being a true reflection and image of the true God in the world, and thereby being properly human.
Our job in our day is to live as true humans (defined by the Judeo-Christian tradition)and to fulfill the call that all humans around the globe have received, and in which all people know in their bones to be true. A life that seeks to reflect the God of all creation in the world, the God that we see in and through Jesus. Jesus was the true image of God (in fact, God himself) and therefore, the true human being. He truly lived up to the call that all humans receive as birthright.
We are to seek to reflect Jesus' true humanness in our lives (filled with the Spirit of Life to bring new life), and be a witness to the world of the truly human way to live. A humanness that seeks to love and care for fellow man and women, even above themselves. A humanness that recognises its role to care for creation, and seeks to thoughtfully cultivate it, and a humanness that seeks to be changed day-after-day into the image of it's Creator- a Creator that turns out to be a self-giving Creator from which love gets it's definition.
That makes a lot of sense. Jesus lived to show his contemporaries of what it is to be a member of Israel- God's people, God's kingdom- and warned them of what it is not like. It was healing the sick; being at the place where sin and death had ravaged and bringing to that place healing life; being a true reflection and image of the true God in the world, and thereby being properly human.
Our job in our day is to live as true humans (defined by the Judeo-Christian tradition)and to fulfill the call that all humans around the globe have received, and in which all people know in their bones to be true. A life that seeks to reflect the God of all creation in the world, the God that we see in and through Jesus. Jesus was the true image of God (in fact, God himself) and therefore, the true human being. He truly lived up to the call that all humans receive as birthright.
We are to seek to reflect Jesus' true humanness in our lives (filled with the Spirit of Life to bring new life), and be a witness to the world of the truly human way to live. A humanness that seeks to love and care for fellow man and women, even above themselves. A humanness that recognises its role to care for creation, and seeks to thoughtfully cultivate it, and a humanness that seeks to be changed day-after-day into the image of it's Creator- a Creator that turns out to be a self-giving Creator from which love gets it's definition.
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