Monday, June 10, 2013
I'll Apologize In Heaven
If I
have overstated my Father’s love; if there is a dark side of His
character of which I’ve lost sight; a Judicial Temperament that will
hold me in account for a distorted proclamation of who He is and what He
wants us to know; an incomplete or polluted aspect of my understanding
and declaration of what I sincerely have come to believe is the true
gospel . . . if I have become confused, misled, beguiled
or misguided in what I wholeheartedly believe has been a revelation of
the meaning of “the finished work of Jesus Christ,” then I will
apologize from the bottom of my heart when I get there. I will plead
that where I have been wrong, I have been sincerely wrong. Wrong after
much Bible study and prayer and soul searching and agonizing with The
Truth. I will humbly and earnestly ask to be forgiven for exaggerating
His goodness and grace. But I do not believe that will ever happen. My
Father’s grace will always exceed anything you or I can imagine. I’m
gambling everything on that and it’s a gamble I am confident I will not
regret…not in this life or the next. Let the critics say what they will.
Let the like-minded stand with me. Eternity will render The Verdict.
Let us each be fully persuaded in our own minds and act on that
persuasion with boldness. Lay down your life for it, because if it's
true, it's worth it.
I'm with you on that one. I've said before that if God isn't the overwhelming, outlandishly loving God I believe Him to be, then I'm not so sure I want eternal life in the first place. Thanks for your ministry and steadfastness in sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
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