Bodie Sanders - May 29, 2022
I Found the One
Dating: 1. Don’t make it too difficult on the other. 2. Realize you’re own inadequacy. Marriage: 1. Don’t buy the lie "Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become "whole" and happy. The assumptions is that there is someone just right for us to marry and that if we look closely enough we will find the right person. The moral assumption overlooks a crucial aspect to marriage. It fails to appreciate the fact that we always marry the wrong person. We never know whom we marry; we just think we do. O even if we first marry the right person, just give it a while and he or she will change. For marriage, being the enormous things it is means we are not the same person after we have entered it. The primary problem is learning how to love and care for the stranger to whom we are married." Stanley Hauerwas 2. Lean into the truth In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it. John 1: 1-5 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17 "In theology this is called "eschatological realism", which is a way of saying you are in the process of becoming who you really are. You are holy, and you are in the process of becoming holy. You are pure and you are in the process of becoming pure. You are blameless and you are in the process of becoming blameless." John Mark Comer "If we let Him... He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot not imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less." CS Lewis