We live in a world full of trials and
temptations.
still
want to be led by the Spirit
how?
what spirit? where?
In Adam the garden becomes a
wilderness.
fall
prey to temptation
start
seeing Law as that which kills
What of Jesus? He surely is led by the
Spirit!
into
the wilderness
Mark
says with wild animals
surrounded
by the law of death
understands
our weakness
We who have been led by the Spirit know
our frailty.
What will we do? What did Jesus do?
tempted
to take matters into his own hands
refused
- life is receiving from God, not forcefully trying to recreate
something.
Does this this mean that we do not stay
active?
No,
it means we invite others to believe, to receive, to know the grace
of God in Jesus.
In this way the leading of the Spirit
is complete. He takes us out of the place we are by nature - sinfol
and unclean in Adam. He brings us into the place of the Gospel, as
those who have been rescued by Jesus' perfect life, death, and
resurrection. We live, and call the world to live, in that perfect
grace.
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