I just finished reading Galatians and John in the Message version. It’s funny; I have read these books many times and typically have been mostly board with them. Paul’s Galatians always seemed to be wordy without a point and John’s account of Christ has always been great, but when one reads it for the 50th time, it tends to loose its impact. Not this time!! I have read them with the knowledge of who God is and how he loves. I noticed that although Galatians was written almost 2,000 years ago, it still applies to today and the system is no longer the Jews diligently following the law, the system in fact is us and any secular means to do something for God. As Wayne so eloquently puts it “… once we contain it in a ‘network’ man creates (the system), instead of relationships God gives, we’ll find ourselves once again climbing the ladder that is leaning on the wrong wall.” And as for John’s gospel, to comprehend how the father and the son communicate, work and love together fluently will be my life’s goal. I have discovered that it is not a statement to follow him, as some organizations would have you believe, rather to live life fully loved by the Father. Christ didn’t point and condemn as commonly thought by the secular culture (thank you organized religion). It isn’t about right or wrong for these are the symptoms of a soul recognizing that it is loved or not. Perhaps the secular culture has blurred the deadly judge with Jesus’ life. The life that was lived watching what the Father did and doing the same thing.
On another note….I just talked with “pastor” Gill. I spoke of the stuff that I was learning and he was excited because that was where his “flock” is going. Although our churches are different we are both searching for the will of the Father. What an adventure.
