Meditations—points to ponder

If church is not about restoring the whole man it may not be in line with 

what God is doing because that it clearly what God is up to.

Q: What does Jesus say of the Pharisees?

… these people’s hearts have become calloused and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn to Me and I would heal them. 

There is an offer in that statement and Jesus is upset that it is largely ignored. 

The Pharisees had completely missed the point of what God is up to—

what He is after in a person’s life … to heal him as a human being.

The tragedy of the plethora of self-help books and programs is that they all miss 

the transformation of our character. Yes! God does help people through such things because He wants life for us … 

but when we focus on fixing problems we miss the other—

transformation of our character. 

If our Christian life is not resulting in the glorious living that Paul talks about … 

then something important is missing.

John Eldredge Free to Live: the utter relief of holiness pp15-17

Ephesians 1:4 (The Message) — 4 Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, 

he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, 

to be made whole and holy by his love.

Ephesians 1:4 (NRSV) — 4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

God is restoring the creation He made.