Lent Book: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/an-ocean-of-grace
My jottings:
(Comments welcome)
Ocean of Grace (15): WEDNESDAY – Stars
Dwelling With Dust (p55ff)
It is appropriate that during Lent we should
be reminded that “dust you are and to dust you shall return”, words God uses to
Adam after his sin in Genesis 3:19, which are used in the Ash Wednesday
service.
God’s grace and condescension are shown not
only to humble creatures such as us but to sinners. We are not only dust but
sinful dust.
Think on your sin as rebellion / treachery / insurrection
/ attempted revolt / regicide. We don’t want God as our God and king and we try
to throw him off his throne climb onto it ourselves and rule as the god and
king of our own lives.
Of course such rebellion is laughably pathetic
and impossible. Our attempts to run our lives our way for ourselves often end
in disaster and tears. God’s throne turns out to be too big and high for us.
His crown doesn’t fit our little heads so its unsurprising that they are uneasy
while they try to wear his crown.
You might like to read Psalm 2 as a meditation
on this kind of rebellion against the LORD and Jesus his anointed King, the
Messiah.
(The Two Ways to Live gospel outline also
helpfully describes sin as rebellion: https://twowaystolive.com/)
God could of course simply have crushed us his
enemies, but he graciously came in Christ to make peace, to offer us amnesty.
Jesus reconciles the Father to us so that we are no longer enemies (he prays
the price of our enmity) and can be welcomed back as friends.
Again, we might dwell on the gracious welcome
the Father gives to his prodigal Son in Luke 15, running to embrace him, giving
him a ring and a robe and a banquet.
Hymn: Rejoice! The Lord is King.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0iVysrykU
Words etc.: https://hymnary.org/text/rejoice_the_lord_is_king_your_lord_and_k
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