Saturday, June 28, 2008

Where is it?

Lonely. Having been taught under certain teaching and, thus, holding certain opinions, loneliness. That's what it feels like. It's not true, of course. But feelings have a wormy way of creating illusion.
Listening to a Gospel song on the radio, I'm reminded of how little we see ourselves as Christians. The lead vocalist exclaimed repeatedly how, "It's all about Jesus, not about us." While I agree that it is all about Jesus...and the Father, and the Holy Spirit (something unrightly taken for granted but never explicitly stated), it is also about us. By being grafted into the tree of Christ, are we not also part of Him and, therefore, everything is about us as well? The trick is to understand what it is about us. We're not talking Osteen-like your-best-life-now-you-will-be-rich-and-perfect-in-all-things-here-on-earth, but rather about the position we have inherited in the Kingdom of God by virtue of being the Church, the royal nation and chosen people of God.
Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking too little of ourselves and be clear about what it is to be the people of God.
Written by someone who struggles (and sometimes fails to struggle) with the idea and the practical application. The problem of unappropriate self-depracation, however, is no less true.

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