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January 6 - January 12, 2019
But the villains of the Bible were real people. They were born into sin as we all are;
Empathy does not insist we condone the beliefs or behaviors of other people, but only that we see the world from their perspective.
When we look to our identities to give our life meaning, they become idols.
This is the sin of Cain: grounding his identity in something other than God.
To be holy is not to wage culture wars. To be holy is to be loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, generous, gentle, faithful, and self-controlled. To be Christian is to seek peace with our enemies and treat outsiders like family. When we are truly different from the world around us in character, not only in behavior, we are a light shining in darkness. We are a sun that banishes the night.
God left heaven and literally became one of us. The least we can do is work to see a political issue from our opponent’s perspective.
As long as we’re trying to balance God with anything, we’ve reduced the Creator of the universe to an object.
When we allow God to order our lives, we cannot help but notice the most vulnerable. We notice them because they matter to the one ordering our lives.
In a world of difficult choices, God does not demand that we have all the right answers. Rather we follow the example of Jesus by wading into the midst of the mess and waiting for God.
