Death and conflict - the masterstroke
Don't be afraid
Of the greetings of death - Greetings of Death, Deliverance
Leave it to God to use the consequences of our fall, both conflict and death, to save, sanctify, and glorify us. I have no words to communicate my feelings concerning this. How could God redeem these and use them for His glory? That which is most hideous (death) and its foretaste (conflict) have been fully bought, to such an extent, that we can, as children of Him, not only not fear them but welcome them. We can sit with them at our table; we can drink them to the dregs; we can suck the marrow out of them and look to see our Savior revealed in all of His glory as a result. Simply put - it is awesome.
God - you have truly given the masterstroke (as C.S. Lewis so poignantly put it) and all is yours. Well done, God. Well done indeed!
Of the greetings of death - Greetings of Death, Deliverance
Leave it to God to use the consequences of our fall, both conflict and death, to save, sanctify, and glorify us. I have no words to communicate my feelings concerning this. How could God redeem these and use them for His glory? That which is most hideous (death) and its foretaste (conflict) have been fully bought, to such an extent, that we can, as children of Him, not only not fear them but welcome them. We can sit with them at our table; we can drink them to the dregs; we can suck the marrow out of them and look to see our Savior revealed in all of His glory as a result. Simply put - it is awesome.
God - you have truly given the masterstroke (as C.S. Lewis so poignantly put it) and all is yours. Well done, God. Well done indeed!
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