Since the farm is not too much going on, one comes to unexpected things sometimes. I make it, now and then to write my term paper (but = rather reluctantly)), but also to pleasant things.
I just read a very interesting book by Richard Foster. Is this old, but so much wisdom has it, which strikes me again and again. For example, justice. We want to be just, be good, as good people be considered. But as we grow well?
Too often we try it on their own volition. Provided we have enough rules, self discipline and pull it hard, we will be good people. I often find myself in how I inwardly lays down a plan and then execute the will. That might work with household chores or things that need to be done, but we can not discipline our hearts or our plan settings. We are like a bit of the Pharisees in the Bible, who also tried, through its laws to meet. Their purpose was to comply with all laws and thus the recognition of people and perhaps to earn God. They did good because they had to. Their Order was law → recognition. They were self-righteous.
Too often we try it on their own volition. Provided we have enough rules, self discipline and pull it hard, we will be good people. I often find myself in how I inwardly lays down a plan and then execute the will. That might work with household chores or things that need to be done, but we can not discipline our hearts or our plan settings. We are like a bit of the Pharisees in the Bible, who also tried, through its laws to meet. Their purpose was to comply with all laws and thus the recognition of people and perhaps to earn God. They did good because they had to. Their Order was law → recognition. They were self-righteous.
change has to happen within us, a change in our minds. We need the thinking of a beggar, who is also described in the Bible, as contrary to the blatant self-righteous Pharisees. He understood that he would never make it to comply with all rules, could therefore never meet. And he knew what it takes. Not in our own righteousness, because we can not be just, but on God's grace. He alone can do justice. If he lives in us, he is the justice in us. He loves us first, we recognize at first, and then he helps us to keep his law. The order is recognition → Law. We do good, because we want it. We not only do good but are good because he lives in us, cause the good in us.
But we need the Beggar as the first move and put our self-righteousness. Making space for God in us, our plans, concepts and iron discipline behind us. It does not mean that we can let go off immediately. Also not to apply the laws of our state will not for us, we should just think as Christians and be both God and man the honor they deserve. It's about thinking and the right order. God's grace is free, a gift and we can only accept and not buy us, or by iron develop discipline.
But we need the Beggar as the first move and put our self-righteousness. Making space for God in us, our plans, concepts and iron discipline behind us. It does not mean that we can let go off immediately. Also not to apply the laws of our state will not for us, we should just think as Christians and be both God and man the honor they deserve. It's about thinking and the right order. God's grace is free, a gift and we can only accept and not buy us, or by iron develop discipline.
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