Ok everyone, I have been planning to do another post on this blog, but this is a different one than I expected. One post I want to do is to compare a rumi poem to the blueback cold poem and describe two different kinds of love. It has to be the right poem though, because I’m not that much of a rumi fan except for the poem I have in mind.
And then this post is to say that a lot of people present the gospel as “you don’t have to be good.” As in, Jesus’s sacrifice is what redeems us and we don’t have to earn it. But I think for a lot of people already on track in some way, they would be more interested in being told, “you can still be good.” In other words, it’s not too late, the lacking is covered for, God puts you over the top. I know the over the top thing is erroneous on some levels, but I am here to say, not all levels. What happed on the cross puts us back into positive territory with righteousness and it makes people’s actual efforts not be a waste of time. And that is part of salvation, to be restored to being securely good people. It’s not just that we are allowed to be bad. Because at heart, God’s people won’t want to be bad.
That is all, it’s not that big of a deal, people are told this stuff in whatever way and they can work it out themselves with “fear and trembling.” However I will say again, this isn’t a post about “supplementing God’s righteousness,” so don’t let the thought police make it that. What I am saying is that people’s internal drive to do well and be good is also from God, and it becomes less futile from salvation, not more futile.
