READ, PROCESS, LINGER…
The uniqueness and depravity of human self-hood – the nature of humanity.
The amazing thing about destiny is when two separate and unique lives, by chance (or is it?), come together. One fulfills, one completes – creating one life, stronger and more beautiful than if they had remained unknown and alone.
Humans are unique to all other species in creation, in that we think, reason, analyze, and have capacity for conceptualizing and structuralization. We make choices and we seem at times overpowered by self – knowing right, choosing wrong. What is right and wrong? If there is no absolute authority, what is knowledge without absolute authority?
As humans, we are attentive to the self. We are in constant dialogue with ourselves internally, with other people, or with God (or our own concept of God based upon imagination, or faith, based upon certain knowledge). Faith goes beyond reason and outside of reason. Empirical definition makes faith unreasonable because it cannot be verified. The persistent thoughts, whether imagined or based on Scripture, are evidence that because we can imagine a supreme being, there must be one, especially since all the attempts of history to destroy the divine imagination have failed.
History offers enough proof of divine authority, whether accepted or rejected. Because the basic intrinsic element of our yearning for the ultimate is insatiable, there must be ultimate God; there must be something better than our failures, our aggressions…
I am pleasantly surprised and encouraged when I encounter integrity, discipline, and humility in dialogue with another.
The attributes of man, when exercised as virtuous, are the pillars that sustain and elevate society and the world.
We who believe (trust) in Christ are sealed and there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. We are free from the death penalty (Romans chapter 8; reference also 2 Corinthians 5:1,2).
When we are weak and humble in spirit, it is then that God is strongest within us.
I am who I am and I am stuck with me. My destiny is preordained, no matter my choices – I exist in my destiny. Thank God, my Heavenly Father, for sending his Son to die and the Holy Spirit to live my destiny in me, through me. Amen.
We are dust with a divine breath, and when that breath is removed we are still dust. What are we without the divine? Men without God indict the past and the future, which is now.
There is a mosaic of Scripture truth from Genesis to Revelation that reveals God’s ultimate plan, centered in Christ Jesus. God planted the seeds of restoration and culmination in Genesis. In John’s Gospel we find the blooming of God’s heavenly seed – Christ.
God is the eternal life-source. Jesus Christ is the eternal tree of life.
God is not viewable by a novel glance. God is concealed from the unbelieving. God is visible to the humble, and God’s works are worth finding out. So, search the Master’s Book and be filled with God.
The pest that threatens each man is his own flesh, which feeds so naturally on evil.
Our subversive nature needs divine uplifting, and therefore Christ was lifted up on my cross and yours. The cross is where God waits to meet you. Come to the cross, be washed by Christ himself. Come.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise noted.