Tag: salvation
The crowd will pick us up and carry us along the wide path unless we resist.
Jonah expected personal mercy for his bad behavior but not corporate mercy for a wayward community.
Paul reminds us how we’ve received two gifts from God: reconciliation for ourselves and the message of reconciliation to extend to others.
We cannot afford to get fat and happy and forget our God. We cannot depend upon ourselves because we are utterly unequipped to save from ourselves from sin. Only God can provide what we truly require.
If Jesus sought out miserable souls to offer relationship and speak salvation, then so should we. No one is too far gone. Every person is an image bearer and needs to be treated as such. We behave as neighbors when we notice another’s pain, when we stop to tend to it as best we can.
Often times we grumble instead of asking God because we aren’t living close to Him to begin with. We think His arms are too short because we haven’t fallen into them.