March 12, 2010

Do you ever have the feeling that the world ought to be better than it is? Do you ever think that the world must have been, at some distant time in the past, better than it is now? If you answer “yes” to either or both of these statements, then you adhere, at least to some degree, to the Biblical worldview. The World was “good” (Eden). The World is a mess (watch the news). The world will be made new (Revelation).

Meanwhile we live in the middle of Mark 12:9, right between the question mark and “He”.

We are the tenants who, each of us in our unique way (even “religiously”) way, banish and ignore the messengers and, again each in our own unique “innocent” way, participate in killing the owner’s Son.

Here’s a great spiritual exercise. Try to see your complicity in banishing the Owner, His messengers, and His Son, from your life. If you can see even a glimpse of this, then God Grace can redeem you. If you cannot see your complicity then ask God to show it to you.

Only those who know they need redeemed will allow themselves to be redeemed.