that is dangerous I know. Speaking before you think and thinking while you are speaking. I said (not to take the credit I have heard this before) we are “human beings” not “human doings.” Have you heard that? What we are is determined by who we are and not what we do. Doing comes from being but being does not come from doing. However, in this sin infected, infested and affected world things get fouled up and reordered all the time.
Our current Washington political crisis is evidence of the backwardness of our thinking and doing. Do you think things would be different if we elected our political representatives based on who they are rather than what they promise they can do? I think so. Thank God that our founding fathers thought of country first and their welfare second. By what I see I am not so sure I can say that of too many in elected office. But, I am not immune.
I get caught in the doing rather than being. I think what can I do to fix… how can I affect… what is the next new thing. Several approached Jesus asking what they could do to have eternal life? If I go to… or serve on this…or read my Bible _times each day or give X$$$ to the church. I have heard folks ask, “am I good enough to go to heaven?” or state, “good people go to heaven.” Maybe you have heard that as well. All of this is about our being “human doings” rather than “human beings.” I heard the answer in contemporary terms recently when a person said, “I’m not good enough to go to heaven. I’m counting on Jesus.” I said exactly right You are not good enough neither am I but He is. Jesus said in various ways to his inquirers (those who want to know) you underestimate who I am and overestimate who you are. You can not do enough only I can. Then what is there to do? Just be.
“Be a follower of me.” Do this and you will be through Christ:
4-6…citizens of Heaven! For consider what he has done - before the foundation of the world he chose us to become, in Christ, his holy and blameless children living within his constant care. He planned, in his purpose of love, that we should be adopted as his own children through Jesus Christ - that we might learn to praise that glorious generosity of his which has made us welcome in the everlasting love he bears towards the Son.
7-10 - It is through the Son, at the cost of his own blood, that we are redeemed, freely forgiven through that full and generous grace which has overflowed into our lives and opened our eyes to the truth. For God had allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: he purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfillment in him.
11-12 - And here is the staggering thing - that in all which will one day belong to him we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! Ephesians 1:4-12 J.B. Phillips
What is there for me to do? Nothing except to participate in the glorious transformation that Christ is performing from the inside out. He has brought me to this point in life and has not wasted a single moment. I him all is connected together. All the doings and happenings of life find meaning and purpose only in Christ who consummates and reconciles everything in himself. This world and the next are joined in Christ.
I can be a human being because Christ is doing on my behalf.
I was just sayin'...and thinking a little.
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