I'm a people watcher. Porter and I sat at the Powell's Books cafe one day, with books to read and coffee to sip. But as he read, I looked out on the busy downtown street, thinking and looking. So so many people. Longing to be loved. With some of them, this longing was obvious, their lifestyle cried out for it, but others it was well hidden, even from themselves perhaps. Drowned in pursuits, or rather, attempted drownings. Lives passing by, souls. Each one needing love. How can I bring God's love to them, and them to love's God? But this is only part of it...
June 5, 2007
"Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning every one of you from his iniquities." Acts 3:26
This blessing, to many, is actually a curse. It is up to the individual whether it is a blessing or curse. Although, in truth, it is a blessing, but! A blessing that is not wanted/desired is thus, in a very sadly real sense, a curse.
It is too great a curse to be separated from their intimate sins to be blessed by God's love.
What decides if it is a blessing or rather a curse?
ReplyDeleteIf we leave it to a vote, it will surely be a curse to the majority (Matthew 7:13).