This week: God as wrath-less. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. In God there is a waiting, loving and eternal embrace. It is meant to be for all and in every place and time. That is God. That is God as wrath-less. The home or the foundation or the character of God's Reign is not out to get us. Rather, the 'wrath of God' is not God's wrath at all. It is the life we enter because we do not want anything to do with this God who is eternally for us. It is life that is endlessly trying to make something more of what we are - or have something more than what we have, even if it means we pursue something to our death. So busy looking for glory we never bask in the glory of God smiling at us right now. So consumed by our desire for more food or drink or drugs or sex or security or control we will have nothing to do with this love that will not let us go - until we have what we desire. God as wrath-less waits for us to come home. No, God as wrath-less never leaves our side in and through all the many ways we seek out another god that we think will save us. And when one of our gods cannot do that and life falls apart and we are literally consumed by our consumptive lives - we claim that the wrath of God is upon us. No - we are upon us - relentless upon us. And God as wrath-less still abides with us to heal and rescue and save and bring life. O God of love and new life, keep our hearts and minds and lives at home with you O God of Eternal Life. Amen. |
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