So it has been a while since my last entry. I have plunged into my busy season of life, which of course is summer. As soon as the weather heats up, window washing picks up where it left off, and my free time shrinks considerably. And there have been other things filling my schedule too.
This will be fairly brief. I want to write one thing I have been meditating on. It is from Watchman Nee's book, "The Normal Christian Life".
He says this: "God makes it quite clear in His Word that He has only one answer to every human need-His Son, Jesus Christ."
I wonder if we believe this, if I believe it. Or do we believe some hybrid of this, somewhat diluted? Do we perhaps relegate the gospel to dealing with "purely spiritual matters", the stuff that is between me and God, as if there were any other kind of matter at all. No, this is true. But I know I for one sometimes don't live or act like it.
I come back to this passage alot, but I believe it contains the essential truth of the gospel.
Isaiah 55:2:
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
The point is this: God is the highest desire of every righteous person, of every upright heart, of everyone who has come to a clear valuation of things. Anyone that has begun to see reality as it really is will begin to understand their need for God, and they will also understand that He is in fact what they want above all else. They will understand that every beautiful and desirable thing in this world is only of value if it serves to point us to our Creator. They will understand that despite the world's best efforts to substitute every created thing for god, there is only one God, one Creator, lover, healer, and Savior of our souls, and only One worth our total affection.
