“He is not trying to squeeze us into an alien mold.” I Peter 2:11 says, “Dear friends I urge you
as aliens and strangers in this world to abstain from sinful desires.”
This chapter reminded me that the heart of Christ expressed
in His body, me and you, actually appears alien and perhaps feels alien or weird
at times. I like Peter's matter of fact approach to this tension -- To live in God's mold as you were intended categorizes you as strange and alien.
I felt convicted while reading. I felt convicted that the “alien-ness” I feel is a revealing to
me of my selfish heart that seeks its own glory and seeks to self-preserve (ALIEN) instead of self-give (NATURAL).
In other words, God is pushing me today to be His church,
His body, poured out in unconditional, sacrificial love.
My prayer is that my the eyes of my heart would be opened
such that I would not see crucifixion (metaphorically and literally) as the end
of life but instead as the very beginning of life. For my crucifixion reveals the heart of
God. My crucifixion reveals life. For Jesus, from the bosom/heart of the Father
bleeding from a cursed tree, is Life.
In one sentence – “To truly reveal the heart ….. someone has
to bleed.”
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