Stories
“Here’s the truth about telling stories with your life. It’s going to sound like a great idea, and you are going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you’re not going to want to do it. It’s like that with writing books, and it’s like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.” -Donald Miller
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We take so much pride in what we don’t sin at. We all love to minimize the seriousness of our sin. And on top of that, our need for a savior. This is a delusion we have allowed ourselves to live by the means of pride. Pride insists it’s own selfish way, with a delusion that we can somehow save ourselves by our own rare moments of holiness and obedience.
But I imagine this is what the first man and woman to ever sin thought. Someone told them they could eliminate the need of God by becoming gods.
But these subtle, small acts of disobedience we commit in our daily lives share the same lie as the same sin that created the Fall. This simple act of eating a food, which in itself eating is not what we would describe as “bad”, was more heinous than we could imagine. Otherwise it’s consequences would not be so terrible.
This action is a part of the lie that we can call ourselves are our own. This comes from a lie that we can expect to receive life from any other source other than the created, giver, and sustainer of life.
“They wanted, as we say, to ‘call their souls their own’. But that means to live a lie, for our souls are not, in fact, our won. They wanted some corner in the universe of which they could say to God, ‘This is our business, not your.’ But there is no such corner. They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives.” -C.S. Lewis
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Humility.
“Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue: it is the high-minded unbeliever, desperately trying in the teeth of repeated disillusions to retain his ‘faith in human nature’, who is really sad. I have been aiming at an intellectual, not an emotional affect: I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: And I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact. Perhaps you have imagined that this humility in the saints is a pious illusion at which God smiles. That is a most dangerous error. It is theoretically dangerous, because it makes you identify a virtue (i.e., a perfection) with an illusion (i.e., an imperfection), which must be nonsense. It is practically dangerous because it encourages a man to mistake his first insights into his own corruption for the first beginnings of a halo round his own silly head. No, depend upon it; when the saints say that they-even they-are vile, they are recording truth with scientific accuracy.”-C.S. Lewis
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Their time will come - and I will remain cozy and warm in the carnage brought by this injustice.
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God loves man.
“When Christianity says that God loves man, it means that God LOVES man: not that He has some ‘disinterested’, because really indifferent, concern for our welfare, but that, in awful and surprising truth, we are the objects of His love. You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the ‘lord of terrible aspect’, is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who, feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist’s love for his work and despotic as a man’s love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father’s love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes.” -C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
God is beautiful.
“God could have created air filtration machines, he instead chose to create trees. Whereas God could have chosen to cast creation in black and white, he instead chose to paint from a vast palette of colors. Why? Because God is gloriously beautiful, and creation reflects his beauty with ceaseless displays of breathtaking splendor that cause us to rightly feel in the presence of something sacred so as to create in us wonder and worship.”
-Doctrine, By Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
The Kingdom
“The kingdom is like a mustard seed that grows and grows and grows until it’s a massive tree.
Not everybody sees it,
Not everybody recognizes it,
But everybody is sustained by it.”
-Rob Bell, Love Wins
Jesus
“He holds the entire universe in his embrace.
He is within and without time.
He is the flesh-and-blood exposure of an eternal reality.
He is the sacred power present in every dimension of creation.”
-Rob Bell, Love Wins
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