tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31175562.post1186043221733143305..comments2023-08-04T04:00:19.328-07:00Comments on Sojourner's Song: Credits, Confessions, and CreedsAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511120181544360746noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31175562.post-15932190062780505262007-01-12T08:52:00.000-08:002007-01-12T08:52:00.000-08:00I appreciate your thoughts Gene. As Oswald Chambe...I appreciate your thoughts Gene. As Oswald Chambers said:<br /><br /><i>"The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. The deploring of our own incompetence is a slander against God for having overlooked us. Get into the habit of examining in the sight of God the things that sound humble before men, and you will be amazed at how staggeringly impertinent they are."</i> (<a href=http://www.myutmost.org/11/1130.html>My Utmost For His Highest, November 30th</a>)<br /><br />It is important to keep both perspectives in balance; there is a very real tension here that I feel we deny to our peril. I like the way Manning puts it in the quote I concluded the post with.<br /><br />We must remember that it is the meek - not the mighty - who inherit the earth.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511120181544360746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31175562.post-19225581168285331282007-01-12T07:03:00.000-08:002007-01-12T07:03:00.000-08:00We are all Ragamuffins. We come to the cross brok...We are all Ragamuffins. We come to the cross broken. <br /><br />BUT - <br /><br />IF we stay there, if we never become what Jesus redeemed us from and destined us for we live below what his purpose was for us.<br /><br />My concern for many Christians is they spend full lifetimes taking the purposes of God to the grave unfulfilled. <br /><br />We are to be <a href="http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/2007/01/luther-on-hearing-from-god-directly.html">Kings and Priests</a>. We are to rule and reign. On this side of the Veil.<br /><br />I know that doesn't fit the faux-humility of most evangelical christian doctrine but you have to tear a bunch of pages out of your Bible to accept less than the fullness of What Jesus redeemed us for. It's not about our going to heaven. It's not about our living quiet lives.<br /><br />We are here to take over. Too long the Church of Jesus has languished in mediocrity and impotence.<br /><br />It's time to arise. A lost world needs to hear from us.<br /><br />Arise, Shine, for your Light HAS come.Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540894657933632541noreply@blogger.com