You were doing well, what happened?
The message of the gospel is so counterintuitive that we cannot hold on
to it by our own strength. Even if it seems that we manage for some time, we so
easily fall back to our normal state of attempting to stand before God with our
own goodness and good works.
Paul goes as far as calling the cross an “offense”, so radical and crazy
is the idea. I have been thinking whether the insanity of the cross could
possibly help us get rid of having a faith centred on ourselves. Otherwise it
is very easy to turn the Bible into a book of moral virtue, a self help guide
to better life. However, with the cross, it is about what God has done in
Jesus. It is a story no self-help guru could ever have written, since it makes
no sense.
When we risk falling off the path, we should remember that it may be the
simplicity of the real message that is so “light” that it can sometimes become
unbearable: The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
La lettre de Paul aux
galates nous semble difficile à comprendre. Le message de la croix est-il absurde?
Nos bonnes actions ne suffisent-elles pas? Cependant, pour moi, la seule
chose qui compte c'est la foi qui s'exprime dans l'amour!
Arttu Mäkipää
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