I have not posted regularly since July. I had intended to start posting again a couple of weeks ago, but I got buried (and still am) in the midst of ministry here at GCF. It’s a really busy time of year and I’d say I’m wearing out (and I am) but its so much fun!
I had a great moment with my five year old daughter on the way to school this morning. I realized just how real Jesus is to her and what a sound theology she is developing.
We were listening to a cd of Disney music in the truck and the song You Can Paint with All the Colors of the Wind came on (from Disney’s Pocahontas). There is a line in the song that talks about the rocks and trees and living things having names and spirits. It’s a bit – no a lot – based in tribal religious thinking and I was tempted to say something about it to Sydney, but before I could she looked at me and said (as if to teach me something I did not know and to let me know that she was a theologian), “Dad, the rocks and trees do not have spirits but Jesus died so that everything could have life and become new.” Could she have captured Paul’s thinking about the entire creation “groaning” for redemption any better than that?
Anyway . . . a promise . . . I will be posting on Monday through Thursday mornings again (beginning today).
Children are often smarter than adults. You’ve obviously done a good job in training her. God bless you!
What do you think of the idea of some of our redemption, even salvation, tied to the incarnation, and God’s redemption of all of creation, in a way that doesn’t reject atonement through the cross theology but sees His move toward us as wider than the one event?