This week: God as partial. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. Let be clear right up front. God as partial is the way we see God. We only see the wideness of God's love - to a point. Most often, we cannot or will not go any farther than what we can handle. When we are honest with ourselves, we do this love and grace and mercy and justice and peace stuff only partially. God as partial is the God we let ourselves have. That becomes the fun and the humor of the stories of God's faithfulness. God keep revealing more and more of the fullness of God's love. Yes, at times it sounds like the same old thing being said again and again. And yet, I must admit that I find those same old voices and words and stories the power that pushes me into new life. God as partial is the God I can tolerate. It is a great God - but it is not the God whose faithfulness is enough - always enough - to carry God's people through any storm at hand. If God as partial is enough for us, imagine the God who is beyond anything we can imagine. There is in that place - that time - that today - that reality - a fullness that is always bidding us come and rest. O God of love and new life, shake us up - stir us up - open our lives wider than we may have ever allowed. Amen. |
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