On this 4th day of Christmas, which is The Feast of the Holy Innocents, I am celebrating 46 years of covenant commitment with my bride, Yolie. God’s covenant commitment to us has been and is the love that has taken two individuals and made of them a wondrous union, a new creation, a oneness that will never cease to amaze me. 46 years of life together. Thank You, Lord Jesus.
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Martin Luther said that the human heart is an idol factory. The truth is that we were created to know and live by the gracious rule of and in the Presence of God who created us. Our peace, our understanding of meaning and purpose can only be truly grounded in God who created us for that meaning and purpose. The rebellion of Adam and Eve, their decision to do the opposite of what God said would make for life, resulted in spiritual and ultimately physical death. They chose to believe they needed something more than what God had provided. Their doomed attempt to try and live life without reference to God as the ground of meaning and purpose did not make life fuller, but emptied it. They wanted to decide what was good and what was evil without God and the disintegration of human life was the consequence. Rather than living in the Presence of God and by the gracious rule of God all around them, they turned from wholeness to brokenness, from fulfilment to scarc...
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