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| Author | Topic: Chapter 2 |
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posted 3/3/09 1:39 PM
The thief hears the official language of hrist: grace. Undeserved. Unexpected. Grace. "Today you will be with me in paradise." Why can we call grace the unofficial language of Christ? When we hear Christ correctly, we hear grace. There are those who can read the words of Jesus but miss the point because they are ready to read in what they want to hear. We hear what Jesus says correctly when it expresses that sense of undeserved, unconditional love, that is unexpected. With JEsus, there always seems to be some reversal. The parable of the prodigal son, the people Jesus choose as disciples, "the first shall be last, and the last first." I think we ought not just seek it, but practice it. We pay attention to the popular, but ignore the lonely. We praise the obvious, and let those quietly laboring go unattended. We give in to the loudest, the person who assumes control, at the expense of those trying to do more. Where do you see this, and where have you experienced the grace of reversal? |
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