Random Thoughts

More random thoughts, pretty much as they come, gathered from my Twitter tweets, Facebook updates and Instagrams. About God in Christ and the reconciliation of the world. Some have come to me in moments of prayer and quiet reflection, some in interaction with others. The stuff that memes are made of. Offered as “jump starts” for your faith.

• Christ, who is in all things, and in whom all things hold together, holds me together. It is a good day.
• Christ is my wisdom, my healing and my prosperity. It is a good day.
• The Cross and the Resurrection cancel out every word of death, destruction and injustice.
• A will truly free is one that naturally follows God, in whose image we are created.
• Discipleship is learning to live daily in the reality of the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
• Christ is risen from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father ~ and we with Him.
• At Pentecost, God poured out His Spirit on all humankind, just as He promised through the prophet Joel. For all in Adam are made one in Christ, joined to God through the Incarnation and reconciled through the Cross.
• There is a deep, deep love in the universe that embraces you and me. It is the mutual, overflowing love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
• God chose us in Christ from the beginning of the world. Which is to say, when God chose Christ, He chose us, too. That is the wonder of the Incarnation.
• When we hold on to bitterness, we leave no room for God’s peace. Forgive.
• Faith in God, who is love, looks like love.
• Faith in Jesus, who is The Way, looks like following.
• God can take the worst our broken humanity has to offer and turn it to profound healing and blessing. Behold the Cross.
• Though the God of Creation is fundamentally different from Creation, yet through the Incarnation, God has become part of His Creation, to suffer with Creation in a way that is completely redemptive.
• In Jesus Christ, all humankind is put right with God.
• We are in Christ not by anything we have done, not even by our faith, but through the Incarnation of Christ.
• Lord Jesus, you are my rest, the calm peace of my soul. It is a good day.
• The gospel is not about sinners in the hands of an angry God but about sinners in the hands of a Loving God, about God in the hands of angry sinners, and  how God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting our sins against us.
• The wholeness of Christ judges the brokenness of the world with healing.
• Grace is the mutually self-giving nature of Father, Son and Holy Spirit extended toward us.
• Grace is the hospitality of Father, Son and Holy Spirit bringing us all into Their divine fellowship.
• Nothing depends on our faithfulness. Everything depends on Christ’s faithfulness. In that is our rest, our peace, our freedom.
• If we do not forgive one another, we do not forgive ourselves, for we are all connected.
• The wrath of God is the love of God burning away in us whatever does not belong, whatever is harmful to us. For God is love, and love is a consuming fire.

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