The Divine Conspiracy: Chapter 3 What Jesus Knew: Our God-bathed World (pp. 61-64)
This chapter of Willard's book rocks my thinking in the best way. The deeper I walk into injustice and brokenness in ourselves and our world, the easier it is for my thoughts to land in darkness, depravity, and the despair found in the depth of the stubborn problems that exist in our community and world.
These quotes from chapter 3 remind me of the beauty, life, love, hope, and joy that IS God and His Kingdom!
"Jesus' good news about the kingdom can be an effective guide for our lives only if we share his view of the world in which we live. To his eyes this is a God-bathed and God-permeated world."
"It is a world that is inconceivably beautiful and good because of God and because God is always in it."
"Central to the understanding and proclamation of the Christian gospel today, as in Jesus's day, is a re-visioning of what God's own life is like and how the physical cosmos fits into it. It is a great and important task to come to terms with what God's own life is like and how the physical cosmos fits into it. It is a great and important task to come to terms with what we really think when we think of God. Most hindrances to the faith of Christ actually lie, I believe, in this part of our minds and souls."
"We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that He is full of joy. Undoubtedly, he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness."
"We treasure our great experiences for a lifetime, and we may have very few of them. But he is simply one great inexhaustible and eternal experience of all this is good and true and beautiful and right."
"One of the most outstanding features of Jesus' personality was precisely an abundance of joy. This he left as an inheritance to his students, 'that their joy might be full.' (John 15:11) And they did not say, 'Pass the aspirin,' for he was well known to those around him as a happy man. It is deeply illuminating of kingdom living to understand that his steady happiness was not ruled out by his experience of sorrow and even grief."
"So we must understand that God does not 'love' us without liking us-through gritted teeth-as 'Christian' love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures i the natural outflow of what he is to the core-which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love."
These quotes from chapter 3 remind me of the beauty, life, love, hope, and joy that IS God and His Kingdom!
"Jesus' good news about the kingdom can be an effective guide for our lives only if we share his view of the world in which we live. To his eyes this is a God-bathed and God-permeated world."
"It is a world that is inconceivably beautiful and good because of God and because God is always in it."
"Central to the understanding and proclamation of the Christian gospel today, as in Jesus's day, is a re-visioning of what God's own life is like and how the physical cosmos fits into it. It is a great and important task to come to terms with what God's own life is like and how the physical cosmos fits into it. It is a great and important task to come to terms with what we really think when we think of God. Most hindrances to the faith of Christ actually lie, I believe, in this part of our minds and souls."
"We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that He is full of joy. Undoubtedly, he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness."
"We treasure our great experiences for a lifetime, and we may have very few of them. But he is simply one great inexhaustible and eternal experience of all this is good and true and beautiful and right."
"One of the most outstanding features of Jesus' personality was precisely an abundance of joy. This he left as an inheritance to his students, 'that their joy might be full.' (John 15:11) And they did not say, 'Pass the aspirin,' for he was well known to those around him as a happy man. It is deeply illuminating of kingdom living to understand that his steady happiness was not ruled out by his experience of sorrow and even grief."
"So we must understand that God does not 'love' us without liking us-through gritted teeth-as 'Christian' love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures i the natural outflow of what he is to the core-which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love."
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