Sunday, January 28, 2007
My heart is alive already. What am I doing then. I have really come to realize that my life is a fight. It is a struggle it is a fight.. A fight!! Like seriously we really do take it for granted that we are saved. That we are alive in Christ Jesus. That are hearts are depraved and wicked. Yes it really is, and yes it really is sick. I really can't explain what is on my mind and heart. The reality of the glory of God. The presence day reality of God with us. We take that for granted and just go about our average day lives. Am I really ready for this? The word became flesh.....
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I agree that most of us take our salvation for granted. I believe it has something to do with how we are raised. I know you and I and most of our friends are second generation Christians, whether directly by having grown up in a Christian household and probably receiving Christ at an early age, or indirectly by having grown up in a Christian school. As such, we for the most part can't say that we were "saved from a life of sin," at least as far as our memory and life experience goes. Scripturally, we can say that, of course.
Do you get what I'm saying? Most of us really didn't have a chance to become these huge rotten sinners in deed (not in spirit), so we never came to the place where we realized how screwed up we are and how precious Christ is. Because of this, there is a disconnect that happens when we hear first-generation Christians talk about how amazing life with Christ is and how much life has changed for them since they met Him. We just do not understand all the emotions that are going on behind these statements, although we understand the Spiritual/Biblical effects readily.
I know I hear it at church all the time, and I feel the disconnect. I noticed Micah seemed to feel it one night too, based on his questions to Bruce. If I dug deeper, I'm sure I can find it in other people too.
Christ is still precious. But He's a little less precious to us, mainly due to our life long familiarity with Him.
"A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more? ...he who is forgiven little, loves little." - Luke 7: 41-42, 47
If we don't comprehend the utter sinfulness of our sin, we'll not appreciate the magnitude of His forgiveness and grace. Second generation Christians and pagans alike are hopelessly depraved until God reveals Himself to them.
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