Friday, November 08, 2013

It's been so long since I posted but I would say Ps. 2:8, today. Or, really all of Psalm 2:9-12, for a start. We need desperately to always remember that TANSTAAFL is a true saying.  Even with our Lord it wasn't free from his standpoint.  Imagine leaving the secure love of the Father to come down to this earth.  Rick reflects on this quite succinctly in his reflections' Story Behind the Story.  Just a short quote from that piece,
The Bible states that man was made in the image of God. There's much theological debate over what the image means: the capacity to reason, to feel emotion, to imagine, to be spiritual. I lean towards Paul's statement in Colossians that Jesus is the image of God (Col. 1:15). In other words, Jesus was the model that God used for man when he created him. Men and women were meant to be little reflections of the Son; through their gifts, through their creativity, through their service and sharing with their Elder Brother, the Son was to be shown off to the universe. And likewise, as they turned with the Son to the Father, His glory would be increased.
Oh, to increase his glory on the earth.  Is this not what a great deal of the statue in Daniel 2:44-45 is all about?  We read in Isaiah that the government is upon Jesus' shoulders and of the increase of that government and peace there shall be no end.  This will not come without a cost.  Christians are guaranteed the earth, lots of material goodies, lots of prosperity, lots of brothers and sisters, but are also guaranteed division in our own families and persecution.  There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL), and as Gary North accurately says, "you can't beat something with nothing".

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