And through that costly handing over of life it would bring about eternal life!
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Are we the first son, or the second son?
What is it about the poor? Why are they so special in the scriptures? Why do they seem to listen to God and walk in his ways more?
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Fire from the heavens changes, burns into us a new way of living, loving
Because what Jesus is saying has to do with change of hearts that are so profound that attitudes, ways of thinking and speaking and being are transformed.
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Listen. See. Take it into your heart.
And the Gospel warns that some will not hear, nor see, nor take it into the heart and will miss it, misname it, judge it, falsify it, refuse it, and in their own way become disconnected! And don’t blame God for it. God promised eternal connection, never cutting off or blotting away.
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Do the right thing
Actually, it seems a little strange, weird — and ugly, even — that God calls Jacob a worm and Israel a maggot. It also is always a little difficult to hear about the violence, war, conquering, and other social upheaval that God would create.
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I’m your servant, Lord. Use me, use me, use me!
The only thing I can say — and I say it with as much gumption as I can muster: If we are going to believe these mystical and wondrous thing said of Mary, then we must believe also the mystical and wondrous things said to the Ephesians and equally to us.
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Heaven is glad and the earth rejoices
To experience healing forgiveness — to receive it and/or to offer it to another — brings “soulfulness” into our lives; we are “made new.”
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What am I going to get?
The coming of the Lord is not “just another day.” This is the event, the moment, the day, the “we’ve never seen anything like this before” time!
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This God is something else
And even when judgement and destruction should come your way, he will bind up and heal your wounds.
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Be the blind who have faith
All of the messianic language of the scriptures would not prepare for this kind of messiah. Because this messiah was to “save us from ourselves.” This messiah was to heal us from our “sin,” the part of us that could keep us from being truly human and, therefore, also recognizing the divine within us.
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