The opening piece is from “Union with Christ” – The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther. Let’s give it a try.
The notion that Christians are partakers of the “divine nature” means that they are also partakers of the properties of God, that is, “filled with all the fullness of God.” God righteousness makes Christians righteous; God’s “life lives in them.” God’s love effects in them the capacity to love and so forth.
In many ways we can say that being a Christian is not to be a “couch potato” life. We are not people who have merely had something done to us…like a tattoo. We are a part of what has embraced us – the active, loving, and gracious God of Creation. I find this to be especially important to consider when we look at the reality of God’s love being within our “capacity to love.” Imagine what that capacity – lived out – would do in a broken world like ours.
Connection: In the middle of all our strife today, be a part of the power that unites, forgives, and brings life to the world.
Praise to you, O God, for sharing your nature with us as your beloved people and calling us to enter this day as partakers in your blessed Reign. We sometimes suffer from amnesia so we ask that you be for us, our memory when we try to be something other than your beloved people. Amen.
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