“Life is doing what comes supernaturally.”
That phrase leapt out at me from this morning’s devotional reading.
Writing this post may have to come supernaturally.
Supernaturally, which is very different from Big Brother Zuckerberg-ally.
Use the word “pledge” in a post, and Facebook now urges you to create a fundraiser.
“Pledge” is a perfectly good English word. You can pledge allegiance to the flag, you can pledge to lay down a B-flat. Pledging is not necessarily to the Jerry Lewis Labor Day weekend telethon.
The SoMe algorithms draw us in and lead us down the primrose path as defined by marketers. The holy spirit draws us in and leads us down the path defined by scripture as straight and narrow. To the naked human eye it looks anything but. It might even look foolish. Even to those of us who call ourselves followers of Christ.
Life is doing what comes supernaturally. ~Brennan Manning Share on X“Law is perfectly compatible with liberty.”
We talk about “freedom in Christ” in our Christianese circles, but do we really understand it? Do we feel it? I think some of that understanding comes with maturity in the faith, and some of it will ebb and flow. As we run up against struggles, “law” we don’t like, and “did God really say?” challenges that are rarely so clearly stated … it doesn’t feel very free. Not at first glance anyway.
In the midweek video study yesterday – in which Rick Warren’s pronunciation of “Abednego” is still triggering me, by the way – we talked about letting God fight our battles for us.
Whoa. How soon we forget.
Go read Daniel 3:16 and keep going for a few verses.
P.S. Kudos if you sang the title of this post to the tune of an Elton John song. You’re my kind of people.
