December 26, 2011
The Outside Looking In
My back deck overlooks my neighbor’s yard and her BBQ grill sits
directly under her kitchen window. The resident long-haired stray cat will
often perch on the grill, slowly waving its tail and looking into the house.
Normally I wouldn’t think too much about it, but with snow on the ground and
the temperature below zero the visual tugs at my heart. When I consider those
who are spiritually lost, I can’t help but wonder if they too sometimes peer
into the life-window of the believer and see a glimpse of what they are
missing.
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And we have some who are more concerned about the animals who have no souls than the humans that do. There must be room in our hearts for both.
Merry Epiphany.
Grace and peace.
Gail;
-----That idea leaves me greatly conflicted. We have an outdoor kitty, too. No matter how much he might desire to get into the house, he won’t. But it isn’t that way with people and God’s kingdom. If even the most evil person desires being in it enough, he will be brought in. Yet, if the best of people desires it more than any desire can be desired, if it is not enough he won’t be let in.
-----That nobody will get in who does not desire being in suggests that desiring it is where entering it begins. But that having the biggest desire to be in will not get you in suggests something more than desire is involved in how much desire is enough desire. Now I don’t know how badly Randy Cat desires to be in our house. It may be a great deal or it may be just a little bit. But I do know how much is enough. Enough is less related to the intensity of his desire to be in the house and more to the intensity of his desire to be like what can be in the house. If he desires to be like that enough to resist being like what can not be in the house while submitting to being like what can, then he will be in the house.
-----So, I feel conflicted seeing people who desire to be in God’s Kingdom but will not be in it. I feel bad for them because what they would have if they also desired to be like it is so gloriously wonderful. And its beginning being with simply desiring enough to ask in submissive belief is very easy, especially since submission is so very much like taking a greatly needed rest from a long, hard, and fruitless struggle. Yet their choice is to sit on their fluffy backsides outside and desire only to be inside. And it is so maddening to see someone desiring to have what they could have without desiring to be what would have it, especially when they start yowling about it.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Gail, I've read all of the last several thoughts and each one has terrific insight. Thanks for the good writing. Betty
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