I'm reading an author and book that is new to my growing list of Books-I-Must-Check-Out. I appreciate all of my friends that invest into this list. The following is an excerpt from a book recommended to me by my good friend, Brad Hill. Simple thought...but totally unthought of in my brain & heart until I read it last night.
"...But the God we believe in is not a bookkeeper, and he's not respectable. As a matter of fact, he's a crook, and he dies as one to prove it. Which is exactly why he's Good News for badly bent types like you and me. Do you see what that means? It means that if he's as weird as the Gospel says he is, we'd be well advised to stop trying to draw some neat little intellectual or emotional bead on what we think he's like, and just shut up and believe in him - trust him - as he actually reveals himself in Jesus. Luther said, 'No man can know or feel he is saved; he can only believe it.' And believing - trusting - is simply something you decide to do. It's not something you can con yourself into with arguments; it's a blind 'yes' to somebody who offers you a fabulous deal for reasons you can't know anything about. ..."
-- "The Mystery of Christ" by Robert Farrar Capon
The way the authors speaks of the Good News and of grace is just downright ... scandalous! The pharisee in me is greatly disturbed. I'm loving every minute of it! :-)
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That's the beauty of it all - you can't understand it all, yet you know it to be true. Good worship comes from being okay with that and admiring how awesome God really is. The fact that we cannot figure everything out yet he chooses to use us should evoke some form of emotion.
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