From
Psalm 15:1-4
H,
The bumpy road of doing the
right thing gets even more unstable the older we get. First, we have to clarify
why we seek to be right. In terms of faith or belief we are not moralists or
puritans. Well, all the evidence suggests that we are not. We do not seek to be
better than others or sit in judgement over anyone. For a Christian doing right
is what the name itself denotes: becoming more like Christ.
When the question is asked,
what pleases God? The answer is Christ. That is the name and the nature that
resounds in all of time as being the Son of God. When He was baptized on earth
and the heavens opened and that symbol of peace and reconciliation with God (or
the subtext in a John Woo film), the dove, appeared, the main thing said or
announced was “I am well pleased.” He is the sun of righteousness. He is right,
itself. All the character of living up to God is in him, tied together. All
law, all covenants, all prophecy and the whole truth personified in the second
Adam. We do not seek to be moral examples but to be Christ like. The
difference? We often seek to be moral examples so we can seem good as well as
be good. We want to be the centre of the thing. Here, we are disciples,
following and failing, living in the shadow of the sun. The former is easy to
fake but impossible to accomplish. The latter is impossible to fake but easy by
humility and obedience, daily and daily again, to become.
The other part is the
rejection of everything else. We have reached the summit so all other vantage
points pale in comparison. We have seen the truth so we can now work out what
is in it and what is a lie. We do not have to follow men. We may seem
independent, loose cannon(ish) or arrogant but if you look closely we are
merely dependent on something deeper than the falsehood of this present world.
We rely on God to take us Home.
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