This week: God as defiant. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . God as defiant will defiantly love us and then invite us to be a defiantly loving force within the world. That means that in a world in which it is easy to cast stones or pass judgment or call others names or come up with rules for life that we want to make the rule for everyone - God as defiant sits down and will not cooperate. God as defiant is then the action against such worldly notions. Even when groups like the church come up with ideas and teaching that seem to make loving all without exception an option, this is the God who defies the church. God as defiant must defy the teaching of the church when those teachings make God's will something we can take or leave. I need a God who defies us. I need to have my decisions and my absolutes and my lifelong held beliefs questioned and at times called out for how they lead me away from God's Reign of love. God as defiant doesn't settle for all the 'common sense' we have come to learn it right and good. Remember it was not common sense to go to the cross - it is an act of defiance. Common sense would have made Jesus shut up and step back. O God of love and new life, ease us away from the easy way to move through this day. Remind us of prophets and saints who defiantly followed your call to new life. Amen. |
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