Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
March 16, 2006
Paul sometimes is exceedingly difficult to follow. I wonder, should we look at his process of building a case for his conclusion? That seems to be the usual assumption. But it may be that we ought to look at his conclusion first and then to think through the steps essential to understanding how it is that we got to here. After all, God sent His Son to acomplish our salvation for us. That foundation is the conclusion that we desire, and it is handed to us, not by study or logic but as fact and as a revelation. Rather than trying to figure out how to get somewhere, we need to learn how it was, is, that we got here and stand in thie grand position and place of favor. We push the string, rope, but it is the anchor to which it is tied that is the security. The various knots in the rope between us and our anchor (Christ) are but places to grip. But is is not that we must hold on to be saved. We are tied.
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