A Beautiful Collision

We should consider offering ourselves to God as he humbled and transitioned from sovereignty to humanity to go from the creator to living among the created. Salvation isn’t bought with worn hands from earthy works or the sharpness of a religious learned heart; we really have empty hands to offer.  Too often we forget our sufficient inadequacies are what allow God to be God in our barren worship of no pretense. We rationalize too often with perfectionist ideology that base God’s approval rating on our skills at knowing all the right theology while being blinded to the dust and ashes mortality our lives carry. We are often too prideful to see our need for God, looking down to the people God is restoring, lives too busy to respond afresh to the daily pursuits from our ultimate lover. The overused word repentance needs to be retranslated into our souls DNA. We must pray so that we surrender rather then expect, we find that sanctuary to place our needs, fears, failures, hopes, desires, our very identity into the hands of God. Living by the example of Christ life and death we can live with reckless abandonment with his love to the world he refused to abandon. If Jesus is the mirror, perhaps we would take off our righteous robes long enough to confess “Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner” Maybe we would stop offering our prayers as if they we were a free service from us as if the needed virtues to fix the world lies within ourselves. Maybe facedown is where God wants us; maybe in this position God will speak in new ways, to be healed at the deepest core. To understand “On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand”. Perhaps then we might have a fusion, or more accurately a beautiful collision of God’s will and our own.