Comments on: Through the Curtain http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/ Reflections on Mysticism and the East Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ted http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-134 Ted Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:37:00 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-134 We are not God. God is God and we are sinful man. He created us for fellowship with Him, but we made choices against Him. We are sinful, but we are given a chance to be saved through the blood of Jesus. And yes, according to 2 Cor 5:17-"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"-we are new creations when we decide to follow Christ. But we are separate and distinct and still woefully human. And that is what makes the whole thing so amazing, that God would choose to use us despite our humanity. We are cracked vessels.(2 Corinthians 4:7-"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us"). Paul stated it in Romans 7:21-24--"So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" And the answer is right after that in verse 25-"Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!" We worship a risen Savior and we follow Him as best we can and all the while we struggle. But God, who is distinct from us and will always be, uses us anyway because He created us and He loves us! Glory be to God! We are not God. God is God and we are sinful man. He created us for fellowship with Him, but we made choices against Him.
We are sinful, but we are given a chance to be saved through the blood of Jesus. And yes, according to 2 Cor 5:17-”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”-we are new creations when we decide to follow Christ.
But we are separate and distinct and still woefully human.
And that is what makes the whole thing so amazing, that God would choose to use us despite our humanity. We are cracked vessels.(2 Corinthians 4:7-”But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us”). Paul stated it in Romans 7:21-24–”So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”
And the answer is right after that in verse 25-”Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
We worship a risen Savior and we follow Him as best we can and all the while we struggle.
But God, who is distinct from us and will always be, uses us anyway because He created us and He loves us! Glory be to God!

]]> By: isaiah http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-133 isaiah Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:46:12 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-133 This is a favorite of mine, “God became human that we might be made god.� Seeing through these eyes, there is nothing that doesn't make sense. This is a favorite of mine, “God became human that we might be made god.�

Seeing through these eyes, there is nothing that doesn’t make sense.

]]> By: Jon http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-131 Jon Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:48:09 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/08/17/through-the-curtain/#comment-131 You have stated it so beautifully and succintly, that there is nothing to say, nothing to edd. You have stated it so beautifully and succintly, that there is nothing to say, nothing to edd.

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