From Psalms 15
H,
I always saw the man described in psalm 15 as
incredulous. Don’t you think? As constant failures in the exploits of the
divine (and not so divine) pursuit of being, you and I always avoid this man of
the psalm. He is a bit annoying. He is who we are meant to be.
In another sense, He is who we will be. Christianity is
being like Christ. This is what our narrow trip toward God is about. Everything
else is ancillary. To share in His glory is to share in His nature. We have all
that theology sorted out. But the now…the brutal now and all it’s falling down.
It makes no sense that all my hate and anger and want and wrong lust will ever
cease. I skipped writing to you yesterday because I was on the verge of giving
up the whole charade and letting the currents of self carry me where they will.
Communication is so often a remainder of the things you truly believe. We do
not live up to those things. Why bother?
Well, first because we believe there is nothing else. You
cannot put your body and mind through the disciplines if you do not think that
this is utter reality. You should not do so unless you believe. There is a
certain rock bottom of the heart that is the starting point of Christianity. It
may not be the way you get in the door but it will happen. The giving over of
that last bit of dignity of self to God is the beautiful surrender that breeds
grace. There is us emptying out and there is God filling us up with Him-self. When
we give up the traps of the world we get the sense that we are now in bore town.
That is just half the story. The other half
is God giving us His nature over the years we live and into the non-years of
eternity. It is not smoke and mirrors. It is not a magic trick. It is the
eternal story of man and woman and God in absolute unity.
Yet, what of now
and all the things we get wrong? They
will continue in degrees. I know it is unpopular to say this. The pop gospel
wants us to breed holiness in ourselves like all that right needs is the will
not to do wrong. When everyone is alone in their own hearts we know it is not
true as individuals or as a body. We mistake our shame of hidden sin for helping
others ‘not to fall’ or not slandering Christ. Fools we are if we think there
is a better slander of who He is than the false sense of covering up the
insides so the outsides can preach a gospel without power to change. We are
only helping ourselves when we do not tell the truth about who we are now as
well as the journey we are undergoing ( most of it in that grand hospital
called Grace) to reach the very heights of the God experience.
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