"taste and see..."
last week i had a discussion with some friends on the unconditional nature of God's love. one friend said she did not believe God's love could be unconditional because if that were true we would not be required to seek Him. therefore, the condition, to find God's love, is to seek. another said she thought God's love could be nothing but unconditional because it is a fact: just as the sun is hot...so God is love. our sins or our righteousness have no effect on the love of our eternal God.
"now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. and we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit." II corinthians 3:17.18
i wonder if the great mystics do not look at us and shake their heads at our philosphical rantings. our predisposition to deduce every spiritual dilemma to a series of intellectual arguments robs us of the joy of the mystery of the gospel.
a.w. tozer once spoke of the veil Christ came to destroy...which christians are ever re-construcing in their lives...if only we could learn to see life through the eyes of eternity we might realize the truth of lewis' words when he said "it is not that we desire too much, but too little, like children content playing in the mud, unaware of the meaning of a holiday at the sea" (paraphrase).
our vision is veiled and we refuse to allow ourselves to dream.
perhaps God's command to seek was not for His good but our own.
it is unimaginable to me, the depth and height. the sweet aroma. the vastness. of God's love for us...what is it that drives me to continually patch up the veil my Savior came to tear away from the eyes of my heart?
"now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. and we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit." II corinthians 3:17.18
i wonder if the great mystics do not look at us and shake their heads at our philosphical rantings. our predisposition to deduce every spiritual dilemma to a series of intellectual arguments robs us of the joy of the mystery of the gospel.
a.w. tozer once spoke of the veil Christ came to destroy...which christians are ever re-construcing in their lives...if only we could learn to see life through the eyes of eternity we might realize the truth of lewis' words when he said "it is not that we desire too much, but too little, like children content playing in the mud, unaware of the meaning of a holiday at the sea" (paraphrase).
our vision is veiled and we refuse to allow ourselves to dream.
perhaps God's command to seek was not for His good but our own.
it is unimaginable to me, the depth and height. the sweet aroma. the vastness. of God's love for us...what is it that drives me to continually patch up the veil my Savior came to tear away from the eyes of my heart?
posted by r.m. @ 12:03 AM
2 Comments:
At 12:07 PM, February 14, 2005,
Lord Milton Pepperbottom III said…
cuz it's easier to... it's less complicated, less fantastic, less uncertain. because we favor table scraps to the cornucopia God promises... because we throw our pearls to pigs just to be torn to pieces. because we are adam, and we are eve, and we all choose the apple over God more than we'd like to admit. thank goodness for grace, huh? otherwise, we'd all be screwed.
At 10:48 AM, February 15, 2005,
r.m. said…
thanks for the comment! i would agree.it is a continual struggle...fighting to live more spiritually-minded.
someday i suppose will look down on my small little life on earth and wonder what the heck i was thinking ;o)
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