More Christian Anarchy
Here is an interesting Christian Anarchist site. I don't agree with everything here but they have quite a bit of good stuff here, go and browse around and you might learn some new things about God's attitude toward governments, things you didn't realize before. Have fun.
Thanksgiving part 2
As I was fasting and praying and thinking and reading the Word of God this morning, I was led to make an attempt to write down what I'm truly thankful for on this Thanksgiving eve. Here is what I came up with:
Jesus Christ, true man and true God, the incarnate God, came to this life, to this planet. He came at a specific place and time, in history, in the flesh. He came as a poor boy, born of a teenage mother, into a manger, a feeding trough for animals. He came, the very God Almighty who created the heavens and the earth, he came, and became humble, the lowest of the low. He showed us how to behave when he, the very Lord God himself, knelt down before his disciples and washed their dirty feet for them. He looked down through history and he saw me, and he loved me. I was a rebel against God, born without the ability to obey him. To disobey God is to die, to be separated from his life, and
I was born spiritually dead, a son of Adam, and dead men can do nothing at all. I was an enemy of God. Yet, Jesus gave his life up for me on the cross,
while I was still his enemy. Every sin I have ever committed and every sin I will ever do, he took the punishment for them. Every evil thing I did, was another blow against him, every time I turned my back on his love was a slap in his face. He looks at me through his own blood, and he loves me, though that very blood is due to my sins, the shedding of that innocent blood is my own fault. I caused Jesus to suffer and die on the cross, I nailed him to the tree. I beat him and scourged him and caused him anguish. And even while I did all of that to him, at the very moment I was spitting in his face and cursing him, he loved me, and he forgave me. And in the end when he said "It is finished" he had taken every vile thing I ever did, and will ever do, he had taken all of that onto himself, and
he became sin for me who had no sin. Then he died. But then, and here's the good news at last, he rose from the dead, and having taken me and all of my sin into death with him, he then brought me back to life with him again, in the new life. Born again. Made a son of God! Free at last of all that sin and all that horror. Free to love and to live for him. At baptism, through the water and the Word of God, I died with him and was raised with him, nothing I can do can add anything to this, it was a free gift from God.
That is what I'm thankful for. Everything else is just gravy.