I know it has been ages since I have written a post and I shouldn't blame school... Life can get busy when i make it that way. However, Christmas is approaching rapidly and it has been so amazing to just sit and reflect on this year and even just this semester! I think it's important to reflect and realize God's hand working throughout life's circumstances.
I have been reading through the Bible (cover to cover), currently in Numbers, and just keep getting hammered with the fact that the Church continues the modern day attitudes of the Biblical Israelites. One of the main issues with them was the lack of trust in God due to their weak faith. The Israelites constantly had to be reaffirmed of God's control and existence through miracles and wondrous signs. Why isn't the redemptive truth ever enough for us?
We as a culture and as humans rely so heavily on experiences and emotions that we lose the purpose that caused the experiences. I keep thinking to myself if only i could have this or that experience it would make my redemption seem more real. When really redemption is reality! When I am of the new life given to me through the atonement of Christ, I am taken beyond myself and my experiences by being identified with Christ. If I only have personal experiences then I am left with something not produced by redemption. However, redemption produced experiences go beyond myself to a place where the attention no longer rests on my experiences but on the foundation of reality. My reality produces the experiences... my reality that is redemption through Christ Jesus! My experiences come to be worth nothing if they do not point me to the Source of Truth-- Christ Jesus.
I often times will place my experiences over Christ clouding what I know to be truth, but when I place my vision on the Source of Truth then I can get to the point where I do not care about my experiences because I am sure of Him and who He is in my life.
"We have received... the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."
1 Corinthians 2:12
I have been reading through the Bible (cover to cover), currently in Numbers, and just keep getting hammered with the fact that the Church continues the modern day attitudes of the Biblical Israelites. One of the main issues with them was the lack of trust in God due to their weak faith. The Israelites constantly had to be reaffirmed of God's control and existence through miracles and wondrous signs. Why isn't the redemptive truth ever enough for us?
We as a culture and as humans rely so heavily on experiences and emotions that we lose the purpose that caused the experiences. I keep thinking to myself if only i could have this or that experience it would make my redemption seem more real. When really redemption is reality! When I am of the new life given to me through the atonement of Christ, I am taken beyond myself and my experiences by being identified with Christ. If I only have personal experiences then I am left with something not produced by redemption. However, redemption produced experiences go beyond myself to a place where the attention no longer rests on my experiences but on the foundation of reality. My reality produces the experiences... my reality that is redemption through Christ Jesus! My experiences come to be worth nothing if they do not point me to the Source of Truth-- Christ Jesus.
I often times will place my experiences over Christ clouding what I know to be truth, but when I place my vision on the Source of Truth then I can get to the point where I do not care about my experiences because I am sure of Him and who He is in my life.
"We have received... the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."
1 Corinthians 2:12