"We don't enter into this kingdom by a sinner's prayer, going forward at a religious gathering, or reciting an orthodox creed, but by learning to trust who he is and by living in that trust no matter what life hurls at us." Wayne Jacobsen from He Loves Me
The kingdom being with us/in us has been something that for the first time in my life makes sense. Everything of the life of independence has to do with controlling the external in an attempt to find peace or feel at peace and it never works.
"The garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it until you have looked for it everywhere and found nowhere that is not desert." W. H. Auden
The kingdom being with us/in us has been something that for the first time in my life makes sense. Everything of the life of independence has to do with controlling the external in an attempt to find peace or feel at peace and it never works.
"The garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it until you have looked for it everywhere and found nowhere that is not desert." W. H. Auden
2 comments:
Was it you and I who were having this conversation the other day, surmising that the "In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you" is also about the mansion inside of us?
Was that you, or are we just tapping into the same thought stream? :)
I had an interesting dream since I had that conversation with you, or whoever it was, where my landlord had put a snazzy new vanity unit in my bathroom while I was away :) I love those "house as me" dreams, they are very revealing :)
You must have been talking to someone else? I don't remember such a conversation.
In my father's house there are many rooms(and it's translated in other ways also)and Jesus going to prepare us a place is clearly refering to the internal (us in him he in us kinda stuff)
I don't for a minute think Jesus is a divine contractor building mansions in the sky. I love how Wayne describes it. When Jesus said he was going away to prepare a place he was going away to the cross to prepare a place for us....and he did. It's in Father..he is our home.
Those dreams are pretty cool I guess. I rarely ever remember any of my dreams.
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