A Worldly Christianity
John 1:14
“In Christ he finds God and the world reconciled…. His worldliness does not divide him from Christ, and his Christianity does not divide him from the world.”
—ETHICS
The Christian constantly lives in a series of tensions between one reality and another. There is the tension between the reality of the things that are and the things of faith. There is also the tension between being worldly-wise and spiritually true; between being relevant and faithful; and between longing for heaven, yet working actively for change on earth. These tensions will probably be permanently with us. But Christ’s incarnation does point the way for us. There God embraced both the world and sought to redeem it.
Thought
If the world is the object of God’s redeeming concern, then we can hardly live as though the world is irrelevant.
What is your prayer thought for today’s lesson?