This post is only about three weeks old:
I've broached this topic on a few occasions in the past. Might your take on my posts be that I am too syrupy when writing about God or His Word? Possibly you think that it is fake....or maybe hypocrisy....or just overly melodramatic? In a way I could see your concern. Jonathan Edward's wife....Sarah....was very emotionally descriptive in her words....but Jonathan Edwards was more theologian like....so it therefore is possible to be Christian and not be....syrupy. Well I would never deny that but add to it....read Edwards....this is the sweetest New England syrup there ever was....but the tongue does not lick the lips nor the eyes roll in delight. The question is not one of emotion....but of knowledge and understanding.
Rhetorical question here.....how on God's green earth....can one understand their once lost eternal soul....deservingly lost eternal soul....and also that God....plucking the worst of the worst out of the fire....(us...me)....proclaimed the word and we instantly had a new heart....and then believed unto a glorious salvation....how can we understand this.....not just assent to it but understand it.....and not be overwhelmed from the moment of that new birth until the same God who had mercy upon us....calls us home?
Logically speaking.....how could that be? Whether syrupy or academic....both would be constant and determined in their overwhelming need to praise God! It would seem that in order for one not to be overwhelmed....one must not understand....and if one does not understand.....maybe one was never plucked from that fire?
No you do not have to be syrupy.....I don't think that Martin Luther was syrupy....but his understanding of...."the just shall live by faith".....changed the world! Hey....I never got over the 1957 Disney film Old Yeller. I remember treating a friend poorly.....that in 1959....at nine years old....63 years ago....and it still bothers me when it comes to mind. One doesn't have to be romantic to be in love....but I bet the one your in love with would have a preference....and so does God. He is everything....His glory and majesty and beauty may fill our mind....but a trillion such minds could not hold the glory due Him! There I go getting syrupy again....all I ask is that you employ some logic....does the love for God in your mind....only you and God know this....does it logically match what He has done for you? If not....cancel all your appointments today....and start to work on figuring out what is wrong!
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"....was Juliet's argument....for it is the sweetness and not the name....and it is Christ's eternal glory....whether sent as a poem or a creed....for the true poem has a creed within....and a true creed is poetry to the ear.
Note: The verse at the top is Psalm 30: 3, 4a.
