Last semester I constantly had a lot of small assignments due weekly for each class. That style of homework wears me out and I was just exhausted at the end. This semester I still have SOME of that kind of work, but my classes are not characterized by that style and that makes a huge difference for me. I still feel overwhelmed. I still always want less homework. Yet, I am not drowning.
Here's something awesome that I've been learning from one of my classes:
Here's something awesome that I've been learning from one of my classes:
While it is true that Christ died to absorb the wrath that was due to me, I often let that truth make me believe untrue things about God. It's easy for me to think - Jesus loves me, but God hates me. It is totally true that God the Father punished Christ because if he didn't he would punish me and I would have no access to him based on my own merits, but that doesn't mean that Jesus is always gracious and patient and God the Father is continually disappointed with me. Jesus always has to remind God to not kill me.
"The mysterious unity of the Father and the Son rendered it possible for God at once to endure and to inflict penal suffering." R.W. Dale
My class called, "Christ and Salvation" has done a lot to remind me that of the unity of God the Father and God the Son. This is the strange part - they are distinct, but they are also one. It is not like the Father is just mad at me and fortunately the Son was able to convince him otherwise. God the Father has been plotting my redemption since long before I was born! The two were working in cahoots the whole time!
One basic belief the world tends to have is that God does not love you. In the garden of Eden, the serpent's lie was, "Is God holding back from you? If he really loves you, why won't he let you eat that fruit?" I still readily believe that. It's a problem and it affects the way I move about in the world. One of the many reasons Jesus came was to reverse that lie about God.
One basic belief the world tends to have is that God does not love you. In the garden of Eden, the serpent's lie was, "Is God holding back from you? If he really loves you, why won't he let you eat that fruit?" I still readily believe that. It's a problem and it affects the way I move about in the world. One of the many reasons Jesus came was to reverse that lie about God.
1 John 3:8
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.