i think the best students of life are not those that have the best answers, but rather those that ask the best questions. i really struggle with giving too many "answers."
Jesus asked, "But who do you say that I am?"
i know what i say a lot with my lips about Jesus, but even more deeply do i know that what my heart and life say betray my lips. "And I said: "Woe is me!For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King." (Isaiah 6)
Why does God continue to long and wait and even yearn for us?
Why does He so passionately rain Grace upon Grace?
Why is there genocide and peace at the same time?
For what purpose has God blessed me so?
To what end am i looking?
What is God's timing and how can i live within it?
Why did Jesus die for decedents like me?
How am i now a son of the One True God?
Why do i have feelings if i know not what to make of them?
What is at the center of my life?
What is at the center of your life?
Good questions make us search for and discover things about ourselves that we'd often rather forget. They help us to rip the veil that covers our heart. To tear down the walls that stand between us and the world around us. To raze the cities that we build to ourselves. When God says, "Who are you and why should I let you into My kingdom?" what will you respond with? Surely nothing you've done. He's already said our righteousness is as filthy rags. No, i think the only answer will be "Because my savior Jesus is here beside me, Your one and only Son, and He has asked to escort me inside. He has invited and i have accepted. i was choked with sin and He was sinless. i was dead, and now i am alive." That is the only way a sinner could ever answer that question.
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