The Offered Life #3

"Every morning

I lay out the pieces of my life

on your altar

and watch for fire to descend

...

But you’ll welcome us with open arms

when we run for cover to you.

You are famous, God, for welcoming God-seekers."

(from Psalm 5; The Message)

Simply wonderful. I'm still feeling carried along on the "bathos" (depth) of the "riches and wisdom and knowledge of God" that's followed me round since I began studying Romans 11:33-12:2 a week ago. It just goes down and down, deeper and deeper ...

If this is a little glimpse of the riches of an offered life, why would we want to live any other way?

Comments

[wilsonian]

Thank you so much for this series, Richard. I am just learning what it means to live an "offered life", and to be frank, it's causing my heart much pain. Many layers of "self" being stripped back.

Thanks for the reminder of hope. E.

[Richard L]

The offered life looks great from a distance, but it's when it begins to bite that it doesn't look such an attractive proposition! But when something deep inside says "this is what you were made for" what can you do?? More to come on this I think ...