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Pentecost 41 There Are a Heap of Stones Out There
Pentecost 41 There Are a Heap of Stones Out There
“We will leave no stone unturned…” is an expression that implies every effort will be made to accomplish a task. In light of the previous article that is exactly what our mission is all about. But let’s put it in a biblical context:
Ezekiel 36:26-28 (Message Bible), “I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed. I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands. You'll once again live in the land I gave your ancestors. You'll be my people! I'll be your God!”
While on one of my trips to England I ran into a gardener digging about her plants. Admiring her garden I stopped and talked with her. She continued digging and came up with several pieces of stone that actually were fossilized remains of living sea creatures. She asked me if I’d like to have them since she found them frequently. I still have them somewhere.
The point here is that every day we run into someone who has been fossilized by the attitudes they have developed as the result of adapting to the world about them. They have tried to go it alone like all of us. People develop all kinds of attitudes based on the joys and pains experienced. Each of us copes differently and who we are is shaped in the process. The problem is that outside of God those attitudes, conclusions about life and our consequent behavior are the stones that make up what Ezekiel’s stony heart is all about. A stony heart is fossilized by pride, fear, defensiveness, rationalization, self-justification and lust to be in control. This is what sin does. It fossilizes us, hardens us and weighs us down with guilt, depression and unresolved anger. The old gospel hymns says it well, “I was sinking deep in sin far from the distant shore…”
We have the lifeline, the one that was thrown to us. When Jesus showed us His heart, the one broken on the Cross, He has shown us the way our hearts of stone can be softened in a relationship with Him. We can be risen from the cave of stone and freed from its cold interior.
We are an unfinished sculpture, a work in progress. That is exactly what God wants, a work in progress to offer the same to others. Everyone is an object of God’s love and He has given us the task of offering them reconciliation with the only One who can penetrate and chip away at the stones which separate them from God and from others. Now is our time to throw it to someone about us. “We will leave no stone unturned…” Why? Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Stay tuned……
“We will leave no stone unturned…” is an expression that implies every effort will be made to accomplish a task. In light of the previous article that is exactly what our mission is all about. But let’s put it in a biblical context:
Ezekiel 36:26-28 (Message Bible), “I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed. I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands. You'll once again live in the land I gave your ancestors. You'll be my people! I'll be your God!”
While on one of my trips to England I ran into a gardener digging about her plants. Admiring her garden I stopped and talked with her. She continued digging and came up with several pieces of stone that actually were fossilized remains of living sea creatures. She asked me if I’d like to have them since she found them frequently. I still have them somewhere.
The point here is that every day we run into someone who has been fossilized by the attitudes they have developed as the result of adapting to the world about them. They have tried to go it alone like all of us. People develop all kinds of attitudes based on the joys and pains experienced. Each of us copes differently and who we are is shaped in the process. The problem is that outside of God those attitudes, conclusions about life and our consequent behavior are the stones that make up what Ezekiel’s stony heart is all about. A stony heart is fossilized by pride, fear, defensiveness, rationalization, self-justification and lust to be in control. This is what sin does. It fossilizes us, hardens us and weighs us down with guilt, depression and unresolved anger. The old gospel hymns says it well, “I was sinking deep in sin far from the distant shore…”
We have the lifeline, the one that was thrown to us. When Jesus showed us His heart, the one broken on the Cross, He has shown us the way our hearts of stone can be softened in a relationship with Him. We can be risen from the cave of stone and freed from its cold interior.
We are an unfinished sculpture, a work in progress. That is exactly what God wants, a work in progress to offer the same to others. Everyone is an object of God’s love and He has given us the task of offering them reconciliation with the only One who can penetrate and chip away at the stones which separate them from God and from others. Now is our time to throw it to someone about us. “We will leave no stone unturned…” Why? Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Stay tuned……
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