Life and truth are inherently incongruous on all levels, all the time. We rant about reaching the poor, but somehow have a 'baseline' normal for exactly our situation and socio-economic status. This fits right in place, somehow...
His house is too big, and theirs far too small and in need, but mine is OK... I will salt my situation with a little bit of guilt as an out-clause, but not enough to spoil any good time with friends and family. Right? What's my floor? How can I honestly and truthfully stand and walk in this disparate world? How can I live at peace with so much guilt in my past and even in my present? I cannot trust my own feelings and thoughts because I might be feeling and thinking wrongly. Right? Right! But here's not only the good news, but the great news! Spirit news! Truth - in order to cut through inherent disparities, anomalies, flat out contradictions and real and solid accusations - is going to have to be spirit. It is going to have to by-pass the solid and blow like wind. Here's the door, and here's the spirit pathway to all peace, for all eternity: Jesus said, 'I am the door. He who enters through me will be saved.' (John 10:9). Jesus also said that his words were the only thing that true words could be: 'spirit and life'. (John 6:63) Jesus also said that to be 'born of the spirit' is as free, unpredictable, and expansive as being the 'wind'. (John 3:8) How do we access this door, these words, this world, this 'justification'? Through faith in Jesus. (Romans 5:1; Hebrews 11:6)
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