The Lord gave me writer’s block today — but it was for a purpose. He is doing something far more than writing this ‘piece.’ He is teaching me, He is leading me, He is restoring me, He is breaking me, He is maturing me, He is redeeming me.
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Jesus knows who he has called us to become since the beginning of time, and from the moment we lock eyes with him, He speaks over us what He has known about us since the ancient of days; even if in that moment we don’t resemble what He knows will one day be true.
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Maybe it’s because I’m a Marvel fan and have a few close comic nerd friends, or maybe it’s because I tend to think of things in the current cultural climate and relate them to other things on my mind, that are relevant at the time.
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Imagine what ultimate justice looks like: Perhaps, a first century Jewish middle-eastern God-man, a cross, an empty tomb, a repentant sinner like myself, and a future where evil truly does not exist.
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The most perfect answer any of us could ever offer is simply Jesus. And so many times I don’t even know what that means. I mean even bible believing Christians (the ones with empathy and common sense) get tired of saying Jesus is the answer.
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Even with a solid hermeneutic approach to reading the Bible, there is always room to grow deeper in intimacy with God through His Word.
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The average consistent churchgoer is intrigued and excited by the Word when it is taught, and yet are intimidated and discouraged when they open it for themselves.
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He left much unsaid, because he genuinely didn’t have answers. He was forced to struggle, to pray as Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, under great stress and great desire to be confident that he would understand and obey the will of God.
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Justice is a central theme in the gospel, God is perfectly just. Discipline is a good thing, but never outside of the other attributes of God. The attributes of God are ever present, even as He exercises one, He simultaneously and necessarily exercise the others. When God brings justice, He does so righteously, He does so in love, He does it because He, and it, are good.
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