The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg France ruled for a Finnish woman who immigrated to Italy in that crucifixes in Italian public schools were indeed harmful to her children. The award was for roughly $7000 but did not tell the public schools in Italy to remove the crucifixes. We are a litigious society, we sue. If violated in some way, we want the perpetrator arrested and tried. If accused, we want our day in court.
We file grievances in the workplace. We stand before committees, boards and church bodies. We file complaints with organizations that exist for that purpose. We ask for an instant replay and we demand recounts. We can abuse most of these courts and arbiters but it sure beats calling our friends and heading out with clubs and axes to settle disputes. We demand justice but the hard reality is that we are an unending line of thieves, liars, murderers and idolaters and that justice in the day of judgement is not what should be desired.
If you should back into someone else's car, they would demand propitiation. We have all sinned and fallen short of a God whose holiness we cannot even imagine. Propitiation is demanded. What have you got to offer? What has anyone to offer. If one has only a remote impression of God then they might feel that surely a compromise of some sort can be made on that day. If one has any vision at all of a God who is not only the essence of love but also the essence of justice, then one would not want to face that day in court.
There is only one who can make propitiation to God, and that is God..... the Son, and he has made it, but for who? The advocate in this court is also the one who made the propitiation. Would you not want to consult with him before your day in court? Would you not want to see the charges against you? Would you not want to at least read the law that you broke? You can do this. If you allot yourself the time to sit and read the Bible, given to you for this purpose, it will proclaim the law and then you will very clearly see that you have broken it and that a guilty verdict will be forthcoming. That same book will give you the gospel and tell you to look to that advocate and to trust in Him in that He can plead the propitiation that He has made, for you. Or.....you can just sing the song that is playing as I write, I kid you not as Jack Paar would say, on Sirius/XM channel 4!
Forget your troubles, c'mon get happy,
you better chase all your cares away.
Shout "Hallelujah," c'mon get happy,
get ready for the judgement day.
One last thought that I try to put in blogs like this, when Christ redeemed me, it must have been to display His power to redeem someone such as I, and to Him be all the glory!
We file grievances in the workplace. We stand before committees, boards and church bodies. We file complaints with organizations that exist for that purpose. We ask for an instant replay and we demand recounts. We can abuse most of these courts and arbiters but it sure beats calling our friends and heading out with clubs and axes to settle disputes. We demand justice but the hard reality is that we are an unending line of thieves, liars, murderers and idolaters and that justice in the day of judgement is not what should be desired.
If you should back into someone else's car, they would demand propitiation. We have all sinned and fallen short of a God whose holiness we cannot even imagine. Propitiation is demanded. What have you got to offer? What has anyone to offer. If one has only a remote impression of God then they might feel that surely a compromise of some sort can be made on that day. If one has any vision at all of a God who is not only the essence of love but also the essence of justice, then one would not want to face that day in court.
There is only one who can make propitiation to God, and that is God..... the Son, and he has made it, but for who? The advocate in this court is also the one who made the propitiation. Would you not want to consult with him before your day in court? Would you not want to see the charges against you? Would you not want to at least read the law that you broke? You can do this. If you allot yourself the time to sit and read the Bible, given to you for this purpose, it will proclaim the law and then you will very clearly see that you have broken it and that a guilty verdict will be forthcoming. That same book will give you the gospel and tell you to look to that advocate and to trust in Him in that He can plead the propitiation that He has made, for you. Or.....you can just sing the song that is playing as I write, I kid you not as Jack Paar would say, on Sirius/XM channel 4!
Forget your troubles, c'mon get happy,
you better chase all your cares away.
Shout "Hallelujah," c'mon get happy,
get ready for the judgement day.
One last thought that I try to put in blogs like this, when Christ redeemed me, it must have been to display His power to redeem someone such as I, and to Him be all the glory!
