August 06, 2012
Hands Off
In a local newspaper there is a weekly Sunday column titled You Said
It…Here’s what’s on your mind. The forum allows people to have their say anonymously
and some of the comments are critical, while others are complementary and
praise worthy. In last week’s column a letter writer said, “Get your government hands off my food stamps.” Seriously? And yet
I can see this jaw dropping comment filtering into the church. We want the
assurance of salvation, but our actions are often saying to God, “Get your hands off my earthly life”.
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Gail;
-----We must recognize that every human - past, present, or future, except Jesus Christ - had, has, or will have a line drawn which bounds those elements of his earthly life the Lord may handle from those He must keep His hands off. We sing, “All to you, Lord, I surrender...” We talk total submission. But if we truly walked it such that the Lord might unboundedly handle our total earthly lives, we would be righteous impeccably, righteous in all senses of the term, righteous without need of Christ’s sacrifice. Of course, Christ wasn’t sacrificed to simply validate the point that we need Him. It was because all men are indeed false. That is why it becomes easy to think we have unboundedly given ourselves to Him.
-----So, with intellectual honesty we must realize that since we are not righteous in our own selves, then we certainly do have boundaries against God’s effects. Hopefully not many are purposefully set, and more hopefully yet, none are purposefully maintained. Regardless, we cry out with Paul about the many things we do which we do not want to do, and the things we don’t do while truly wanting to do them. We are not simple creatures, maybe because we are bounded creatures.
-----Then as important as a life unbounded to His hands should be, a life unbounded to His mercy is imperative. It is devotional to sing out, “...I give You my all...” but it simply is not technically true. This must be part of our confession. For confession is what dissolves boundaries against the coverage of His blood. And that is what must be unbounded in our earthly lives.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Can't believe someone would say that. Surely must be ignorant of where the stamps came from in the first place.
I have to admit that when I read the newspaper quote, my mouth dropped open. haha. There's just so much wrong with that statement. :s
But what a GREAT analogy you made with it! Nodding now, definitely nodding.
Deb
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