interesting.
so i go out with a couple of friends this weekend and one of them drank a little more than his fill. ok, so he was trashed. and then he writes this little ditty:
“sin is funny. we naturally think of sin as something you DO… I shoot squirrels, I eat babies, etc… sin is that. but its so much more. the problem is that sin is something you ARE. so you can’t really just stop doing it, because most of the time you don’t even realize its a problem.
I feel this with my independence. its not something I can just fix. when I do I’m only “tinkering with the inner-self†as tozer said, and mucking things up worse than they were before. its almost like you can’t directly fix the problem sometimes, jesus has to work on the problem indirectly until one day you wake up and realize its just not such a problem anymore.”
interesting. if the fellow reads this, know that i’m not passing judgement, just simply observing.
Filed under: Friends, ThoughtProvoking on June 27th, 2006
interesting remarks. Seems to be anti-new testament. Jesus is a story of freedom, redemption, hope, and rescue. What i hear from your friend is bondage, hopelessness, entrapment, and abandonment. I hope the story of Jesus begins to sink in deep for us all. I hope Jesus is more than just an indirect transformer, I hope he continually transforms as i daily choose life over death, freedom over captivity, rescue over abandonment. Love ya tbrooks, thanks for stirring my heart with those words this morning.
there are no time zones in the hearts of men…we all go thru poop at the same time and then, almost simultaneously, we exit the sewer and somehow end up in a refreshing lake. i think it’s amazing.
another thought…”i eat babies?” that might require therapy.
I found it interesting that this dude found his independence a sin…