From another forum:
"The deeply personal reconciliation between the creator God and the human
race in and through Jesus the Messiah can hardly be explored too often, or
too thoroughly. It is the theme that lies at the heart of the Christian
experience and claim, the point at which believing certain things *about*
God is swallowed up in personal knowledge *of* God. To be sure, it is easy
to be deceived at this point, not least through the arrogance that quickly
and conveniently forgets that our knowledge and love of God are but the
reflex of God's knowledge and love of us (I Cor 8:2-3). It is easy to
imagine that one is knowing the living God when in fact one is worshipping,
and deriving spurious comfort from, an idol of one's own imagining. That is
why, as in the present paragraph, it is vital to keep Jesus, and the cross
and resurrection, at the center of the picture, and to invoke the Holy
Spirit through whom God's love floods our hearts. This knowledge and love
of the true God is evoked and sust ained most chiefly, as here, through
meditation on the death of Jesus ..."
Happy Christmas
David Field
Oak Hill College / Enfield Evangelical Free Church
race in and through Jesus the Messiah can hardly be explored too often, or
too thoroughly. It is the theme that lies at the heart of the Christian
experience and claim, the point at which believing certain things *about*
God is swallowed up in personal knowledge *of* God. To be sure, it is easy
to be deceived at this point, not least through the arrogance that quickly
and conveniently forgets that our knowledge and love of God are but the
reflex of God's knowledge and love of us (I Cor 8:2-3). It is easy to
imagine that one is knowing the living God when in fact one is worshipping,
and deriving spurious comfort from, an idol of one's own imagining. That is
why, as in the present paragraph, it is vital to keep Jesus, and the cross
and resurrection, at the center of the picture, and to invoke the Holy
Spirit through whom God's love floods our hearts. This knowledge and love
of the true God is evoked and sust ained most chiefly, as here, through
meditation on the death of Jesus ..."
Happy Christmas
David Field
Oak Hill College / Enfield Evangelical Free Church
