His Grace's Invasion: Comprehension and Wholeness, the Divine Healing
His rich provision and will exact a price: communion with Him in suffering; communion with Him in suffering sanctifies a place for His dwelling.
His rich provision and will exact a price: communion with Him in suffering; communion with Him in suffering sanctifies a place for His dwelling.
Life's unremitting 'greaterness' overwhelms our capacity to take it in; Jesus' supremacy obviates our need to contain and settle it.
The uncompromised totality of Christ's Redemptive Feat makes every alien alarm hollow and summons redeemed hearts to conceive the sole Majesty's real prospect.
We're undone and remade by Jesus' all-determining Feat of Life; our beatitude is the need that compels us into the new world of His Resurrection's conquest.
All our initiative must flow from the initiative of God through abandonment to His singular, incomparable faithfulness. His faithfulness—the origin and spring of all faithfulness—streams from His sovereign freedom, the freedom that means infinite, unforeseeable horizons for us in God's supernal design.
Does God radiate through the sacred prism of our trusting surrender as freely as He ordains and informs Nature's unfathomable glories? Does our faith whisper of life's endless expanse streaming through the solitary prism of the Creator's love?
God's sole, all-originating fertility birthed the miracle of myriad selves: Adam's race. His sole, all-subduing love conceived primordially the final shape of things: Man fully, freely God's, and God fully, freely Man's.
In love's liberation Man wills, in the resonance of Spirit and spirit, to submit to the Living Flame—to be, not consumed, but known.
Our existential need to be divinely known will not be consummated if we let it outstrip and overwhelm the obedience that, alone, authentically confides our existential need to the divine destiny and conquest of Love.
Exchange and Co-inherence: our need, His condescension; our blessing, His self-giving; our fulfillment, His limitless prospect; His perfection, our consecrated devotion.
We are beholden to hope and constrained to press on. Life's homeward drive concedes no lesser satisfaction or semblance of arrival; there is no 'there'...there.
Renounce, resist, the unreal, the un-actual, that violates you and others through you; embrace the radical exigency of Love's transforming summons.
The ever-drawing, ever-transforming NEW, immutable and unsurpassable, inexhaustibly generated in the knowing love of Father and Son.
Beatitude's burden is ceaseless passage on freedom's Way and Life's advance; entrance and arrival are marked in Holy Blood; the very Way's forward surge leaves no fixed place or possession for creaturely pride..."BLESSED ARE THEY...MY BURDEN IS LIGHT...I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA."
We can't evade or surmount what God wants; we are the grace-struck medium of His necessary revelation; life's intrinsic provision, and the riches thereof, are for realization of the single timeless sacred desire.
Nothing: nothing greater, more essential, mightier, more fulfilling or compelling. Nothing.
Divine appointment is divine vista; His right to us is the substance of our own deliverance and flourishing.
A genuine willing spirit's embrace of divine demands defying expectation—this is the identity of courage; what is less than this is pretense, and pretense unchecked finally forfeits hope.
Because of His right to us, we have no right to hopelessness; a conscience alive to God, a spirit meshed 'organically' with His urging Spirit—this is the identity of ebullient, vital creativity.
Supernal Love's absolute design concedes no approximate fulfillment, contemplates no compromise, excludes no cost, shirks no truth, admits no illusions.
Supernal Love never coddles His own but provokes and strains within them to commit His daunting will: redemption over retribution, beneficence over malice.
The infinite Sacrifice of the infinite Sonship, Life's one eternal Ground relentlessly pushes up the shoots, and feeds the roots, of Life's full prospect and horizon; barren despair is mercilessly excluded and competing claims obliterated by Life's one Word: Follow.
In the divine economy we aren't left to our own devices. The projections of 'the power and the glory' that emanate from our phantom-spinning souls are profitless and waste. Neither is a stake permitted us in the ephemeral conjurings of the Zeitgeist. 'Take care how you hear....' Bankrupt, all of us, our capitulation to His absolute dominion means our life's whole conversion—from desperate, doomed venture to endlessly unfolding, radiant vibrancy in the Real Life of God.
The Divine healing is inseparable from the Self-giving and entrance of the Divine Person. Our commitment of choice, effort and devotion is the indispensable answer to Him and the seed of ripening glad vitality—yet a sword, too, 'shall pierce your heart.'
Comprehension and Wholeness: The Life of Father, Son and Spirit will not, finally, submit to our discernment; rather, The Life must be our discerning Center, defying and confounding the conceptual edifices of the sin-skewed world.
His grace's invasion transfigures the mundane and meaningless into moments of sacrament, of encounter and consecration; the manageable turns fearsome, the fearsome discloses glimmers of transcendent joy, and the conquered-by-grace turns surrendered-in-Love.
Life is too much to cope with. Taking it all in is an impossible project. Thus the compelling need to come in—into the Ruling Source and Center. He deprives us of the inferior and unworthy in a shock of beatific loss, and circumscribes our being with love in the boundless harmony of a new creation. Such is the Creator's urgently benevolent intent. Cope? 'We are more than conquerors....'
Launchings and arrivals and the fateful choices between—all in God a story of call, answer, and becoming.
The inviolable, militant, self-existent Holiness: humanity's only, and sacred, Light of Life.
The variable and the invariable: contingency and ultimacy, love actualizing and Love summoning, perilous beginnings and perfection all-subsuming.
The primacy is His. Surrender to Him is need and love fulfilled. The Authorship is His. Surrender to Him is helplessness and courage transfigured in union. Eternity is His. Faith in Him is the moment transubstantiated in Kingdom Presence.
