Tuesday, November 23
Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it.
—2 Corinthians 3:3
NIV
Someone asked me to communicate in words the good news of God without using any religious or theological verbiage. Okay, I’ll give it a shot:
- God is Love.
- Love (God) seeks the highest good of the other.
- The greatest good God (Love) could offer is himself and so God made all people a reflection of himself in order to form an intimate bond with humankind.
- In God, we experience life, love, freedom, joy, and peace. God is pleased and smiles.
- Doubting God, we seek fulfillment our own way and fall short of experiencing what God desires for us.
- This path of independence bores a deep sense of separation from God into the heart of humankind, out of which the brokenness and suffering of the world flow.
- God passionately resists this reality because he (Love) insists his creation know the highest good, which is possible only in relationship with himself.
- Love (God) sacrifices everything in order to heal the wound of separation.
- The cross and empty tomb sends a resounding message to the heart of humankind: all is forgiven, there is no separation, there is only grace, you are loved.
- The soul is awakened to the life of Christ within and we begin operating differently; seeing through Christ’s eyes, thinking with Christ’s mind, feeling with Christ’s heart, and acting with Christ’s will.
- We become instruments of love, peace, compassion, community, healing, justice, reconciliation, and beauty in the world.
- We look past the human exterior of others and affirm all people for the reflections of God they truly are.
- Another soul is awakened to the truth, and another, and another.
- Words are no longer necessary; our lives individually and collectively are the good news of God and his kingdom.
God, I’m not the most articulate person in the world; let my life do my talking. Amen.
These Signposts originally appeared on explorefaith in 2006.