Christ is indeed the only God of salvation, the cosmic Redeemer King. Having said that we may never drain from that conception of His being, His essential, God-ordained Israeli identity which makes Him essentially human too.
Salvation is of the Jews, as Paul said. It is to them first that the gospel of their Redeemer King must be presented. To neglect to do so is to disobey the commands of God and we can expect no blessing. To obey this command is to ensure life from the dead for our own souls and the life of God's children on earth.
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Monday, 4 July 2016
REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE WELL LIVED.
Inherently I am strong, fearless and clear thinking. However those natural dispositions are just as much a potential for great evil as great good. As C S Lewis said, it is our strengths we need to fear more than our weakness. They had to be tempered by the Spirit of God or they would have destroyed me, and perhaps others along with me.
The means He used were those in most women's hearts, if they are honest.Through my inordinate desire to be safe and admired in the arms of an earthly lover and settled into the security of a beautiful home, I exposed myself to evil and was smashed and left for dead. No earthly power could preserve me as it was masterminded in hell, aided and abetted by the anger and jealousy of close family and an apathetic, indifferent Christianity, unable to perceive the forces ranged against me.
Out of this abandonment God was reshaping and restoring me for true spiritual beauty and life, totally drawing on His loving faithfulness to His covenant with my people and to me as one to whom those promises had been made. Scripture reflects the story of my life, both the sin and reconciliation, being lost and then found. The Word which God has implanted in my soul and written into my mind. That's how I know He is true and His Word is true.
It is true at all times and does not depend on my conscious appropriation of that truth. I am living proof of that, a demonstration to the heavenly powers and wicked forces of the immutable, underserved and victorious loving kindness of the Godhead who know no other heart beat than that of mutual love for one another. There is no reason for Him to love me other than that He has chosen to do so.
It is this we are called to reflect to the world, that demonstration of His love which is the rain which makes the implanted seed of His Word grow. This love is unmoved by the miserable condition of those we are called on to love. Our only hope for the salvation of this world. God overcame the evil heart of this world but it is our task to demonstrate this.
We read His promises and start to cling to them and as we look back we can see how they have shaped and kept our lives, revealing His greatness and goodness to the world. Bringing His children safe home is His greatest work and demonstration of His self-giving love and power to those who fill the heavenly realm.
Ephesians, the book that changed my life.
The means He used were those in most women's hearts, if they are honest.Through my inordinate desire to be safe and admired in the arms of an earthly lover and settled into the security of a beautiful home, I exposed myself to evil and was smashed and left for dead. No earthly power could preserve me as it was masterminded in hell, aided and abetted by the anger and jealousy of close family and an apathetic, indifferent Christianity, unable to perceive the forces ranged against me.
Out of this abandonment God was reshaping and restoring me for true spiritual beauty and life, totally drawing on His loving faithfulness to His covenant with my people and to me as one to whom those promises had been made. Scripture reflects the story of my life, both the sin and reconciliation, being lost and then found. The Word which God has implanted in my soul and written into my mind. That's how I know He is true and His Word is true.
It is true at all times and does not depend on my conscious appropriation of that truth. I am living proof of that, a demonstration to the heavenly powers and wicked forces of the immutable, underserved and victorious loving kindness of the Godhead who know no other heart beat than that of mutual love for one another. There is no reason for Him to love me other than that He has chosen to do so.
It is this we are called to reflect to the world, that demonstration of His love which is the rain which makes the implanted seed of His Word grow. This love is unmoved by the miserable condition of those we are called on to love. Our only hope for the salvation of this world. God overcame the evil heart of this world but it is our task to demonstrate this.
We read His promises and start to cling to them and as we look back we can see how they have shaped and kept our lives, revealing His greatness and goodness to the world. Bringing His children safe home is His greatest work and demonstration of His self-giving love and power to those who fill the heavenly realm.
Ephesians, the book that changed my life.
Friday, 1 July 2016
TRUE FAITH
It's no use telling someone God loves them if you don't. True love is always demonstrated. God isn't going to ask us one day 'what do you believe about Me?' He's going to ask 'what did you do for Me?'.
He asks for a demonstration of love as proof of our profession. He asks no less from His Son. Jesus went before His Father with His shed blood as proof of His love, both for His Father and for us. He expects no less from us, not as atonement, but as living proof of our devotion to Him.
His special love is for His chosen people, the descendants of Israel. Do we imitate Him in this?
He asks for a demonstration of love as proof of our profession. He asks no less from His Son. Jesus went before His Father with His shed blood as proof of His love, both for His Father and for us. He expects no less from us, not as atonement, but as living proof of our devotion to Him.
His special love is for His chosen people, the descendants of Israel. Do we imitate Him in this?
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
TREMBLING TIMES
God expects us, His children, to understand His ways through His word and so in His world.
We do well to study both as good workmen, correctly analysing and skilfully teaching and applying His Word of truth to the events of the day.
1Timothy 2 vs 15
Hebrews 5 vs 14
We do well to study both as good workmen, correctly analysing and skilfully teaching and applying His Word of truth to the events of the day.
1Timothy 2 vs 15
Hebrews 5 vs 14
Sunday, 26 June 2016
Friday, 24 June 2016
ONE DAY REVEALED AS HIS CHILDREN
I lost my life as a slave and gained the life of a queen. We discover that when our Shepherd King calls us to loose our lives for His sake and the sake of the good news of His rule, we gain the life of His Father's children, ruling as prince and princesses of His kingdom, serving the One who, from all eternity, devoted His love to creating a family in the likeness of His much-loved Son and Heir.
This is the love story of all time and made known only to those who devote themselves to His service.
'The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.'
Only the eyes of the second born can see the Kingdom of heaven and understand its language.
John 3.
This is the love story of all time and made known only to those who devote themselves to His service.
'The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.'
Only the eyes of the second born can see the Kingdom of heaven and understand its language.
John 3.
Friday, 3 June 2016
REBEL TO THE LAST
There is only one sin that will send a man to hell. The refusal to believe that Jesus, God's only Son of Salvation, took that man's sin upon Himself and died for it so that he could be given the right live in heaven as God's child.
John 1 vs 12
I John 3 vs 23,24
John 1 vs 12
I John 3 vs 23,24
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