This week: God as radical revelation. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]What if radical is more than I would consider radical? People on the 'radical left'
and the 'radical right' seem to like their position. It fits them. But then is radical
now considered expected - the norm - the way things are - the way we want things?
God as radical revelation is the power that is always dismantling what we may consider
radical and that which we love to claim for ourselves. Rather than a badge or a
bumper sticker that is an attempt to show how radical we are, God as radical revelation
doesn't need a bumper sticker - it is a life that will show itself as being quite
contrary to all the groups and clusters of folks who like life just as they have
defined it. The radical nature of God's Reign is one that simply comes to life.
We may find that other radical notions of life are really just positions we love
to hold rather than a gift of life that is handed to us by this God as radical revelation.
This revelation always comes out of a love that will not settle for love-in-part
or love-sometimes or love-for-some. This kind of a radical base reveals just how
stuck we can be in our own way of seeing and living.
O God of love and new life, continue to shake us and lead us beyond the places we
tend to settle. Bring the vibrancy of your Reign among us. Amen.
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