Monday, June 6, 2011
6-6-11
This is a little take from Roy Hession's book "We Would See Jesus'. It encouraged me and I hope it encourages you as well. Grace permits us to come (nay,demands that we come) as empty sinners to be blessed, empty of right feelings, good character, and satisfactory record,with nothing to commend ourselves but our deep need, fully and frankly acknowledged. Then grace, being what it is, is drawn by the need to satisfy it just as water is drawn to depth that it might fill it. This means that when at last we are content to find no merit nor procuring cause in ourselves, and our willing to admit the full extent of our sinfulness, then there is no limit to what God will do for the poor that look to Him in their nothingness. If what we receive from God is dependent, even to a small extent, on what we are or do, then the most we can expect is but an intermittent trickle of blessing.
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Love it! I'm here in Hawaii facing the Valley of the Temples in a beautiful setting with flowers to adorn the individual graves spread over the hillside with the fog gently descending on the sculptured hills (not mountains) overlooking the thousands of dead - and I am mindful that whether the gravesite is designated Shinto, or Catholic, or Korean, or any other religion, none of these can raise themselves to face God and say "This is something I have done" ... even the world's largest Buddah which is about a mile from my "blog-writing spot in McDonalds" has no power to hope that the good deeds a person does outweighs the bad. Our motives are weighed by the LORD. Proverbs 16:1 and 16:9. This includes myself and my own deeds and failures and successes!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your thoughts Bill, all the more reason to cherish His grace and seek Him for more.
ReplyDeleteGod give us the compassion to pray and the courage to share His amazing message.