Over The Edge

Isaiah 30:21  (NIV)

Excuse me while I get deep in thought, thanks to Timothy Keller. I can't help myself. Quoting N. T. Wright, Keller says: How can you live with a terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that the fire has become flesh, that Life itself has walked into our midst. Christianity either means that or it means nothing. It is the most devastating disclosure of the deepest reality in the world or it is a sham, a total nonsense. Most people, unable to cope with saying either of those two things, are condemned to live in the shallow world in between. Keller says that Jesus Christ can't be on the shelf. Each one of us will have to address who he is in our own lives. Most people cannot say either of these two things, but they are the only two things that you can say if you even a shred of intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional integrity. Why? If you read the Bible, read Jesus' sayings, read his words, how can you call that a sham? But if it's true, then you have got to throw everything you have in your life down at his feet, and say "Command me."