The One Constant is Change

Wrong. The one constant is Christ. The only needed constant is Christ. Every other thing is on its way elsewhere. Back to the ashes and dust from which it was made. There is one thing that can be leaned on without fail: Christ. There is one unshifting anchor for the body, soul and spirit: Christ. There is one arm of one Beloved upon which the church can and must lean: The arm of Christ.

Thanks for the fruit tonight, Daddy. I got the chance to see and know. Thank you. Have mercy on us when we go to Egypt. Thank you that you made your church for us all to be a part of. Help us each day to find our part in the body of Christ.

Wind

Reading just now about the new tallest building. http://www.popsci.com/bown/2010/product/burj-khalifa

Someone at work today was talking about how quickly America has become other than what we grew up thinking she was. The only thing that came to my mind in the conversation was that no house is worth much when it is removed from its foundation.

Now here is this article about a building whose greatness is not strictly dependent on its foundation, but upon its mass and the character of its core. Ponder that a minute. Move it and its mass does not change. Move it and its core character does not change. Sure, it still has got to have an impressive foundation. But the foundation means less than in any previous "World's Tallest Building."

Just thinking about foundation versus core character and mass.

The Spirit baptised believers' mass is the chabod, the weight of the Spirit of God. The mass is not necessarily visible, but is there nevertheless. The weightiness of the man is part of the way those who encounter him describe him.

The core character is the Naming, where the abiding name describes the character of the named one. When Father has changed someone, he has renamed him. Given a new name to describe the new character, the new man. The Name of the family which has adopted the new member. And you have to go into the core of the building to understand its significantly different nature. You have to go into the core of the man to see how he has been changed. Of course if you sit and watch him in the wind of life, you will see how he acts differently because of his new nature.

So why was I previously valuing foundation so greatly? One thing for sure is the description of the fundamental difference between building on sand and building on the Rock. And on this Rock He will build His Church. There is nothing without the fundamental truth of the Good News. But atop it, what is the fundamental character and weight of the Church as she is fittly joined together?

Father, teach us how to be the Church for which you have laid the perfect foundation. Keep us heavy with the oil of Your Spirit and joined to one another in the fashion that demonstrates your Love in the face of the wind.

Convinced

I am convinced that the Holy Spirit is involved in this trip report. This life of faith is supposed to look, sound, smell and feel different. The Holy Ghost stirs people up, makes them see themselves in the light of holiness. If it was a human thing, a part any human religion, nothing would get stirred. There would always be a human path to compromise.

Jesus never is about compromise. He is about uncompromising holiness making a way for uncompromising wickedness to be completely forgiven. That is stirring stuff up. That is open warfare against all that opposes the will of God.

So if Christianity makes people uncomfortable, it is because it is supposed to.

Father, thank you that you are not an ordinary god.