This article: sums up my sense/position of things. It has helped take away the guilt, isolation and confusion I feel when I get accused of lacking ‘faith’ and yet encourages me that when I just stand, just quietly stand most of the time, that in certain significant situations that I see as the right place, the places that Jesus has put me in, that somewhere, somehow the Kingdom is still shining through it all 🥹
How like our own mortal lives is history . . . none of us gets out of this thing alive or, at least, unchanged in the case of the raptured saints. All of us are born to die and our only hope is the Return of the King.
This is a good thing to remember on Ascension Day, the point of which is that Christ is enthroned as Lord and King having defeated the powers. We stand with him now and await his appearance.
I like to think of this as the opposite of “the ends justify the means.” I say to myself, “there is no end, only means.” Obviously our methods and ways do lead to outcomes, but I think we are not meant to focus on those, but to think about how to abide and love and serve faithfully without tying it to a result. Relational, rather than transactional.
This article: sums up my sense/position of things. It has helped take away the guilt, isolation and confusion I feel when I get accused of lacking ‘faith’ and yet encourages me that when I just stand, just quietly stand most of the time, that in certain significant situations that I see as the right place, the places that Jesus has put me in, that somewhere, somehow the Kingdom is still shining through it all 🥹
How like our own mortal lives is history . . . none of us gets out of this thing alive or, at least, unchanged in the case of the raptured saints. All of us are born to die and our only hope is the Return of the King.
This is a good thing to remember on Ascension Day, the point of which is that Christ is enthroned as Lord and King having defeated the powers. We stand with him now and await his appearance.
I like to think of this as the opposite of “the ends justify the means.” I say to myself, “there is no end, only means.” Obviously our methods and ways do lead to outcomes, but I think we are not meant to focus on those, but to think about how to abide and love and serve faithfully without tying it to a result. Relational, rather than transactional.
Thank you 🙏
So helpful, thank you for this