Simply Musing

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8) 

But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. (Psalm 115:3)

(This will sound like I’m in mid-thought, but that’s what musing is all about, right? They call it “charaz”, but this isn’t so much “wise sayings” as the definition of the translated word assumes. It’s more incomplete thoughts of a student who loves the Bible, so read on if you don’t mind that kind of scattered-ness). 

The Saved Depraved

I am so glad I’m saved. Trite? Maybe. But I cannot help myself. Having grown up in the church, it is easy to pass by the profundity of the bestowment of salvation from eternal torment. Even more so if you’ve become too religious for your breeches.

It struck me the other day in a way I had not considered. I was in the middle of a prayer meeting and as I closed my eyes it dawned on me that I should be staring afflicting demons in the face as they shred me apart in hell- and it would be a just sentence…

… but Ephesians 2:4-10 finishes the rest of the story…

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 

Potent Quote from A. Nolan:

“Jesus has been more frequently honored and worshipped for what he did not mean than for what he did mean. The supreme irony is that some of the things he opposed most strongly in the world of his time were resurrected, preached and spread more widely throughout the world– in his name. Jesus cannot be fully identified with that great religious phenomenon of the Western world known as Christianity.”