Tag: Judgment
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Lent and the Spirit
With effort and practice, we can learn to discern the movement of God’s Spirit in the world, but first we must recognize how the Spirit works within our inner selves. Our temptation is to think we can see the Spirit in the world generally, and particularly in the lives of others, when we have yet…
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Loving Darkness
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. John 3:19-20 This statement of Jesus…
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Free From Judgments
Recently I heard this statement: “It is not any of your business what others think about you.” Pause to consider what is being said. Ask yourself how much of your life has been shaped and affected by expending energy doing what this saying says we should not, namely, spending time worrying about what others think…
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The Light And Judgment
The captivating gospel of Christ turns upside down the way we have thought about God and ourselves. God, who we typically fear because we believe he is angry and eager to smite us, is actually eternally loving and full of mercy, even for our worst offenses. Likewise, we often believe ourselves to be those who…
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Judgment Will Save Us
We have frequently heard the language of judgment as if it is synonymous with everlasting condemnation from which there is no hope for return, room for repentance, or forgiveness. Judgment, in this popular conception, is portrayed as the final act of God casting away the disobedient and sinful. In this understanding, God runs out of…
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Judgment And Salvation
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:17 John is very clear in the beginning of his gospel that Jesus came to save and not judge, that is, to rescue and not to condemn to destruction. However, we…