Once again, keeping track of things to think about

[tree_and_leaf]

There is no part of us which God is reluctant to look at. He is not embarrassed by us. There are bits of us that look - and are - deathly, but God is in the resurrection business.

God is the only person who can properly judge us, because he is the only person who properly knows us and what went into the making of us (including ourselves). He will not give up on us; whatever we do, however we reject love, the least honest turning back to him is met with his grace and transforming acceptance (if there's the least spark, he will blow on it until it kindles into a flame, as CS Lewis observes).

God meets us where we are. All he asks of us is that we be - or try to be - honest and open to him, here and now, and let him work in us.

We don't say that God is loving, or acts lovingly; he is love.

Talking about what we 'ought' to feel is extremely dangerous.

It seems likely that the question we will be asked when we come before God is not, why were you so wicked, but 'why did you spend so much time making yourself (and others) unhappy?'

One of the less noticed consequences of the Incarnation is that God knows what it feels like to be me.

Comments

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

I still mean to comment on several of your posts, only I'm dead tired when I come home from work.
On the weekend, I promise. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

I hope you're bearing up and enjoying the new job, though!