This week: God as radical revelation. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com].
Is the radical revelation in line with the vision and life of God's promised Reign
as we hear it in Scripture and through the witness of the faithful? We have to ask
that question when it appears as though God as radical revelation is pulling into
a way that differs from the one we are presently moving. Remember there are may
radical notions that do not follow the way of love and grace and mercy and loving
kindness and justice and peace. When a radical notion is pulling us away from those
fruits, we must do something radical in another way - resist. I think of the folks
who once followed Jim Jones back in the 70's. He started with a strong appeal to
the care of the poor and a life within a community of hope - that is always a radical
way to go. But then, all hell broke out. I mean that in a very real way. Rather
than having that church continue on the way of God's Reign, Jones turned it into
a journey of violence, self-worship, and sheer robbery. We only need to see the
horror of Jonestown to see where radical revelation can take us when it is not
a revelation of the God who by grace invites us to love and serve one another
O God of love and new life, keep the vision of your gracious Reign always before
us as we enter this day. We easily fall into the grip of that which is not the
way of your Reign and too often we settle for that. Continue to invited us out beyond
what we want into what you offer us - life eternal. Amen.
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