The victorious life

June 1, 2006 · Filed Under theology

If I could write as powerfully & cogently as Jon Ledetroit does (The Difficult Realization that the Christian Life is not Positive…at least here on earth.), then I would go on a blogging sabbatical too!
Seriously, though, Jon gives lots of good food for thought regarding the tension that exists between the reality of the victorious life and what we actually want it to mean. I’m right there with Jon when he observes:

Everything I have amassed, I like; no I love it. My family, my health, my job and my possessions I have been blessed with these things and I do not want to lose them.

Thank God that I am reminded through proper preaching and orthodox readings that all of this can be taken away from me. It is not mine and moreover it is not good for me.

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I can honestly say that there is nothing of me that wants to embrace this theology. I want to live the victorious life. I want my family, goods, honor and reputation to prosper and be protected. I don’t want this stripped away from me. I do not want to be chastened!

Yup, that about sums it up…

-ghp

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