Bringing Light to Life
Recall the Lord’s wilderness temptation. After the last test, we’re told, “When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time” (Luke 4:13, italics mine). Satan didn’t give up on his plan to bring down Jesus. From the moment the two parted in the wilderness, Satan looked for an opportunity […]
Paul commands us to focus our mind, our thoughts, on Christ in heaven, not on this world, because we died with Christ and are hidden with him in God. Like a page in a book, we are hidden in Christ. We who were once alive to the world and dead to Christ, must see ourselves […]
In life God seldom moves suddenly and often moves slowly. Of course, we desire flashes of insight which carry us forward quickly. But we must apply those insights and that can take years. That is the slowness of God. How we live with God’s slowness before Christ appears, Paul addresses in Colossians 3:1-3: “Since, then, […]
There is a suddenly with God. In a moment An eye will twinkle. The end will arrive. We will be raised. And transformed. Perishable body clothed with the imperishable. Mortal body clothed with immortality. Death swallowed in victory. That future, in Christ, is certain. And sudden. In the meantime: “Since you were raised […]
The Death Paradigm—the dark lens that hides truth and shades all we see Prior to the Lord’s resurrection, death ruled supreme. Death conquered everyone: young, old, rich, poor, strong, weak, kings, commoners, individuals and nations. Everyone bows to Death. We may eat well, exercise, wear a seatbelt in a car and a helmet on a […]