Awestruck by the Sovereign LORD

Here is a good post on why we should seek to be hospitable rather than just falling into it.

D.A. Carson, in his remarkable commentary on the Gospel according to John, shares a poem of his on “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 I am the way to God: I did not come To light a path, to blaze a trail, that you May simply follow in my tracks, pursue My shadow like a prize that's cheaply won. My life reveals the life of God, the sum Of all he is and does.  So how can you, The sons of night, look on me and construe My way as just the road for you to run?      My path takes in Gethsemane, the Cross,      And stark rejection draped in agony.      My way to God embraces utmost loss:      Your way to God is not my way, but me. Each other path is dismal swamp, or fraud. I stand alone: I am the way to God. I am the truth of God: I do not clai...

There had never been a display like that before, and there never will be again.  The whole of life is to be spent in understanding the truth displayed that day.  The unparalleled mixture of grace and justice resonates throughout all eternity.  It is the echoes of this divine display that is to  fill the words and lives of Christians centuries later. Here are resources that I have used to help me to dwell on what occurred on that Good Friday.  I suggest that they be watched in this order.   The Other Cup – an excellent sermon by Ray Dillard A shocking video of a sacrifice with this commentary on it. “ Well, I Wonder If You Know Him ” ‘And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,  and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall re...

“Late medieval Roman Catholicism left the future verdict at the final judgment the ever anxious and uncertain outcome of the Christian life.  In contrast, the Reformers grasped that the verdict, belonging at the end of history, has been brought forward and already pronounced on believers in history, and so, constituting the certain stable basis for the Christian life, provides unshakeable confidence in the face of the final judgment.” - Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. from “Justification and Eschatology” in Justified in Christ:  God’s Plan for Us in Justification