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non-metaphysical steven dropped a response on my blog regarding an Ellul quote I had posted and when I linked over to his blog I found this quote:
"The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct." --Jacques Ellul
I think that says it all when it comes to the freedom God gives us all to choose. Now mind you, what I am seeing these days is that this ability to choose doesn't mean we are free, it just means we get to make our own choices.
Freedom comes as our lives are being reconciled back into a dependent relationship with God. Any choosing outside of that relationship does not make us free.....but this wonderful God is still committed to go with us wherever we choose to go. He sticks with us, loving us regardless, and in that love and acceptance woos us out of the messes we make attempting to do it independently on our own.
I am so glad there have been many people who have done some difficult work translating these writings of Ellul's so to preserve them for future generations of seekers. I just love that quote.
"The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct." --Jacques Ellul
I think that says it all when it comes to the freedom God gives us all to choose. Now mind you, what I am seeing these days is that this ability to choose doesn't mean we are free, it just means we get to make our own choices.
Freedom comes as our lives are being reconciled back into a dependent relationship with God. Any choosing outside of that relationship does not make us free.....but this wonderful God is still committed to go with us wherever we choose to go. He sticks with us, loving us regardless, and in that love and acceptance woos us out of the messes we make attempting to do it independently on our own.
I am so glad there have been many people who have done some difficult work translating these writings of Ellul's so to preserve them for future generations of seekers. I just love that quote.
2 comments:
Wow.
Jennifer, when I read that quote it just made me laugh with joy. That describes exactly how I am seeing it these days.
When I read scripture these days it is right there and in my daily life that is what I am experiencing. I'm with you...WOW
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