shine like stars
11Jan07
Ultimate corrosion and corruption can act on a human body for one reason: death. Right now, corrosion and corruption can act on a human spirit and body for one reason: lust.
Our physical bodies have an appointment with physical death - the moment when the spirit leaves the physical body. Yet the power of physical death is now broken. Anyone whose identity is found in Jesus is a child of the resurrection; they have authority over sickness and disease, and they never see death.
Lust, unlike physical death, is completely avoidable. There is corruption in the world, and all of it comes directly as a result of lust; and anyone who is in Christ has already escaped that corruption. Right?
Glen hey it is great to see you putting post up so often. They have been making me think. And that is a really good thing. I read a just got done with a book i think you would like. It is called “Searching for God know what” by Donald Miller. Check it out you will like it alot.
Hope all is well,
Gabe
http://www.cedarburns.com
gabe, good to hear from you! donald miller is definitely good at asking hard questions. i heard about a pastor asking another pastor if we’re missing a few details, & the answer was “i think we’re missing whole pages.” miller’s really good at getting that point across. this quote is especially nice:
Each year I teach a class on the gospel and culture at a small Bible college back east. This year I asked the students to list the precepts a person would need to understand in order to become a Christian. I stood at the white board and they called out ideas: Man was sinful by nature; sin separates us from God; Jesus died for our sins; we could accept Jesus into our hearts (after some thought, students were not able to explain exactly what they meant by this, only saying it was a kind of interaction in which a person agrees Jesus is the Son of God), and so on. Then, looking at the board, I began to ask some questions about these almost universally accepted ideas. I asked if a person could believe all these ideas were true and yet not be a Christian. I told them my friend Matt, for instance, believed all these ideas and yet would never claim to be a person who knows Jesus or much less follows Him. The students conceded that, in fact, a person could know and even believe all the concepts on the board and yet not be a Christian. “Then there is something missing, isn’t there?” I said to the class. “It isn’t watertight just yet. There must be some idea we are leaving out, some full-proof thing a person has to agree with in order to have a relationship with Christ.” We sat together and looked at the board for several minutes until we conceded we weren’t going to come up with the missing element. I then erased the board and asked the class a different question: “What ideas would a guy need to agree with or what steps would a guy need to take in order to fall in love with a girl?” The class chuckled a bit, but I continued, going so far as to begin a list.
1. A guy would have to get to know her.
I stood back from the board and wondered out loud what the next step might be. “Any suggestions?” I asked the class. We thought about it for a second, and then one of the students spoke up and said, “It isn’t exactly a scientific process.”
..i feel as if i can contribute nothing to any of this.
and also that i needn’t contribute - but to say that
i’m here and reading and hearing all this as I should.
thanks again Glen for lifting Love.
~Agreeing with luke!
Yes Glen i adgree. This book has started me down a path that i should have been on along time ago. Just the thought that it is not all about us in the “Life Boat”. That was the chapter that got me the most. It is great to know that it is about a relationship not only of us with Jesus but us with each other. It is not us vs them. And i have begun to realize that is how i have been living my life. So keep posting and i will keep reading. And one day we will realling be living the life that Jesus called us to live.
if you like that book check out “Good News About Injustice”
by Gary Haugen
and go to http://www.freederekwebb.com it is some great music that is free from Derek Webb who was in that band Cademan’s Call.
also our new music is free on our web site http://www.cedarburns.com
so check it out and let me know what you think
love you glen
keep in touch