The Bible is filled with figurative language. If God wants to be understood, why are there so many stories, verses, and images that can be left to the reader to interpret? What can we learn about what is important to God in all this?
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The Bible is filled with figurative language. If God wants to be understood, why are there so many stories, verses, and images that can be left to the reader to interpret? What can we learn about what is important to God in all this?
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When we SEE the power of a living Christ, then we fear the God of action and creation. We experience the deliverance ourselves and rejoice in the salvation of the collective church. The qualitative difference in divine action removes all doubt and we ‘believe the Lord’ (Ex. 14:31). Praise and worship follow that salvation (Ex. 15), that deliverance, that sand-under-our-sandals reality. God shows up, just in time. Our enemies are dead on the shore. We can move on in freedom. Seeing is, in fact, believing.
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This is the real tragedy. We don’t live by faith because we really don’t trust the living God. Our churches, our programs, our conduct is altogether human, too human. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of compromised Christians, we ourselves default to a level of mediocrity that does not look like the mighty faith of the New Testament.
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Recently, I was bemoaning the state of male spirituality. I was genuinely grieved that I could not find a single male candidate to hire for job openings at the school.
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