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We profess to think jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. when we are offered his spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

-George MacDonald

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We Profess To Think Jesus The Grandest

George MacDonald

We profess to think jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. when we are offered his spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

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To follow jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. to follow jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from jesus, formed by the influence of jesus. to follow jesus means that we can't separate what jesus is saying from what jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. to follow jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (the way of jesus, eugene h. peterson, 22).

The words of jesus, including those jefferson and the jesus seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. they don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. they command. we can obey or rebel. that is why jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.

I know that i have to move from speaking about jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with jesus to letting him act through me. i know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.

This kingdom of god life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the holy spirit for us while we slept. we wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of israel and jesus, the story of jesus and the stories that jesus told. we let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the jesus way.

We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. nature is very kind with us. and if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

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