What is it about this universe! The law of diminishing returns is one heavy gangster. It makes bad men badder, and even haunts the good deeds to forgotten closets. It is as if a huge negative aura permeates, well, everything!
"One of my greatest fears is that I will grow cold like an iceberg ... (john piper)"
Similarly, I fear one day I will just not care. Not like some carefree, fun loving child, but more like a over-basted swine, sitting on some couch, immobilized by laziness and selfishness. Who can imagine such a ghastly existence?
I can.
Most far-fetched ideas appear too high on the shelf of life to even have a sphere of influence. Minuscule practice, little sins, or small good deeds count as small steps in a 5 mile long trail. But as our God would design things, the small things add up to the large ones. 38 years of lying will foster sores on our hearts, full of envy, secret motivations, and the puss of hypocrisy. How small our minds our.
Perhaps our prison is the very moment that we dwell, forgetting the past, and blind to the future. A villain is built over years, not over weeks. And how shall we know we are not the new countenance of human disaster and desire? Small thing after small thing on the balance will tip the scales and show us our true nature.
Who then can be saved?
Romans 124Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
With men, it is impossible. How can we exceed our times? Remembering the old, the wise, and the previous. How do we exceed our nature, our very existence? How do we exceed the bondage to humankind? We cannot.
Praise be to God, who unlike mankind, lived in an amazing way we cannot comprehend, and died in love to God, and not to self. Amazing grace, amazing love, how can it be? Indeed.
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