May the mumbling commence!
Allow the Spirit to take control of your life, and be introduced to a strong wind that will carry you to become the person that God intended for you to be. Hold on tight! It’ll be a wild ride that ends in blessing after blessing. Read from Romans chapter eight (Peterson’s The Message paraphrase):
With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous. low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. (Verses 1-2)
The dilemma is resolved. In this case, it is the dilemma of the sin ravaged body. It is resolved by the great, strong wind of the Spirit of Christ. It is inevitable for those who embrace that wind.
The imagery of wind makes me think about the theme in Tolkien’s The Hobbit that deals with “luck”. “Luck” is much more than just the luck of the slot machines at some casino. Luck is the will of God manifest. It, too, is inevitable… like the strong wind of the dwarves’ song at Beorn’s house.
In The Hobbit, the balance of life and peace of all creatures must be restored. It is much more than obtaining some great hoard of golden treasure. And God desires that the balance of life and peace be restored in all situations. And that victory will not come without costs and without learning new ways of embracing treasure and the peoples that populate our existence.
Thank you, God, that you cleared the air with the work of Christ!
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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