This post delves into the my personal struggles with my faith in Jesus and my relationship with God. It explores feelings of anger, bitterness, and a desire for change.
I am on the hunt for the ostensive phrasing of Fee’s Axiom. The treasure I seek is the hermeneutic, as in THE Hermeneutic. This hermeneutic applies to every letter, word, and sentence in Holy Writ. It always applies. A biblical interpretation is deficient if it does not adhere to this rule. Here is the ostensive hermeneutical principle.
God highlights his sovereign pleasure in his creation by choosing the promise as the way of the Savior. Mercy abounds from the very beginning of the Bible. Only through the promise do we have hope. In Galatians 3, “Until Christ came,” The Savior has come. It has happened. All of history revolves around this reality.
There is more to forgiveness than its legal aspects. And more manifestations than just the act of mercy. God beckons us to pursue forgiveness in our lives because of how good forgiveness is to us.
God’s forgiveness is like a blossom,
Its beauty bright; its fragrance awesome.
For Mercy’s glory is beyond compare,
And to the cross, it takes us there.
Forgiveness is an ever-elusive Christian virtue. Especially among Christian circles. I’m confident you know that gregarious, bubbly happy Christian who jumps at the chance to forgive people thus trying to upend my syllogism. I am not that person.
When we look at Jesus, we lose the fear that keeps us from seeing that we need to help. Those who seek help, first see the need. Confession between you and the Father is where all of this begins. When we look to the Holy Spirit, we sense wholeness started. With the Father, our faith broadcasts future hope when God makes all things new.
You ever wonder about what you would change in your favorite books? I do all the time. I thought I might share a few: Curious George Goes to the Hospital: Everyone knows animals go to veterinarian hospitals, not people hospitals! Snow White: The seven dwarfs adopt Snow White resulting in Prince Charming having to ask…
Many times I have considered the weight of the cross as Jesus bore it. By that I don’t mean just physical weight, say 250 lbs or whatever; rather, I have in view the ontological weight. By that I mean the weight that came with becoming a substitute for us when he who knew no sin…
Never has the world experienced a week comparable to the week of Calvary. The man who impacted history more than any other rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. Satire couldn’t come up with a more seemingly comical scene than the invisible God who spoke the universe into existence as one who rode…