Lent Reflections: #2
I'll borrow this for the day.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/february-web-only/centered-cross-fred-sanders-crucifixion.html
If regularity of posting means anything, I should have a lot more hits on this blog! I'm sort of joking. It is my calling to write, and to write positive fiction (although that's hard; mine takes a dark turn much of the time) and messages that spread Biblical teaching, mostly the gospel, and helpful posts about communication. A calling, in part, means you do it even when the results aren't there.
In reading the essay on the link above, I reflected on Jesus dying. Do we think about dying? Do we really ponder what it would be like to leave this level of consciousness, which is all we know, to another level, which we don't, and which Hamlet called "the undiscovered country"? It is a door we walk through; unlike the secular version of reality, death was not in the original plan for us. It is now necessary for better things, but I confess to not being excited about death.
And the reflect, Jesus did that willingly, through suffering, and in an even different level of consciousness as deity. Hummmmm. We hear "Jesus died for our sins" that we become enured and deaf to it; we almost think, "Well, that was the plan, that was His duty." No, that was not His duty, but the maximum, magnificent gift.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/february-web-only/centered-cross-fred-sanders-crucifixion.html
If regularity of posting means anything, I should have a lot more hits on this blog! I'm sort of joking. It is my calling to write, and to write positive fiction (although that's hard; mine takes a dark turn much of the time) and messages that spread Biblical teaching, mostly the gospel, and helpful posts about communication. A calling, in part, means you do it even when the results aren't there.
In reading the essay on the link above, I reflected on Jesus dying. Do we think about dying? Do we really ponder what it would be like to leave this level of consciousness, which is all we know, to another level, which we don't, and which Hamlet called "the undiscovered country"? It is a door we walk through; unlike the secular version of reality, death was not in the original plan for us. It is now necessary for better things, but I confess to not being excited about death.
And the reflect, Jesus did that willingly, through suffering, and in an even different level of consciousness as deity. Hummmmm. We hear "Jesus died for our sins" that we become enured and deaf to it; we almost think, "Well, that was the plan, that was His duty." No, that was not His duty, but the maximum, magnificent gift.
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