The Gift of Certainty

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Jeff Block
Certainty

“All my life I’ve had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I’m like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear.” –Commander Jeffrey Sinclair

Can we be certain about the purpose of our lives? What has God put us here to do?

When I think about these questions, I have moments of crystal clarity. Sometimes, I feel like “the arrow that springs from the bow” — a moment of remembrance for Commander Jeffrey Sinclair; I’ll never forget the first time I heard him say that — no hesitation, no fear, no looking around to make sure I really want to go to the center of the target. Other times, I’m not at all certain about my calling. It feels like it’s awfully easy to get sucked into the vortex of “What does God really wants from me?”, and I’m not a fan. I suppose this is in fact closely related to the idea of resting in Christ. I think it’s because I find myself evaluating my calling based on my perception of my own ability to fulfill that calling, so I end up muddle-headed and afraid.

But God is faithful; he will surely do it!

In the closing words of his first letter to the Thessalonican church, Paul quick-hits a laundry list of exhortations to admonish, encourage, rejoice, pray, be thankful, respond to God’s prompting, be discerning, and a host of others – wrapping up with a crescendo to “be good and don’t be bad” in 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22. It must be one of the most densely packed sections in the New Testament in terms of commands to God’s people. Even though it’s only a few verses, I don’t make it all the way through before my earn-your-way-to-heaven upbringing starts to chafe. Not cool. Doesn’t feel like the gospel. But keep reading. Paul reminds them of what I too need to hear as well in the next few verses:

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” (1 Thess 5:23-24, emphasis added).

  • It’s not “sanctify yourself”, it’s “may God sanctify you”. He doesn’t even delegate it. He does it Himself!
  • It’s not “keep yourself blameless”, it’s “may God keep you blameless”. And at that, all the way to the end … when Christ returns.
  • It’s not “be faithful”, it’s “He who calls you is faithful”. Not only is the story about God (not about me), but God Himself wrote the story and God Himself is faithful to unfold it. Truly, He is the Alpha and the Omega (Rev 22:13), and the Sustainer all the way through (Col 1:17). Safety and rest are in Him (Isa 41:10), not in some false sense of control I conjure up in my mind from inside the story.
  • And finally, it’s not “make sure you do it”, it’s “He will surely do it”. I have the responsibility of availability, not the responsibility of capability. It’s the strength of God’s arm that is on trial, not mine. (2 Chron 20:1-24; one of my favorite stories in the bible)

So, what God starts, He finishes (Phil 1:6). If He says to it, then He’ll do it in you. God is not weak and He’s not slow. I’m both. But I trust the Lord, and I’ll listen to Him. And what He says — I know — He will surely do it!

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The Gift of Rest

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Jeff Block
I delight myself in You, captivated by Your beauty God, I run into Your arms, unashamed because of mercy I’m overwhelmed, I’m overwhelmed by You

I delight myself in You, captivated by Your beauty
God, I run into Your arms, unashamed because of mercy
I’m overwhelmed, I’m overwhelmed by You

I don’t know about you, but I wrestle with the concept of “resting” in Christ. God makes it extremely clear in His Word that we are called to “rest”.

  • God models rest in His resting from the work of creation (Genesis 2:1-3). The omnipotent God wasn’t tired, He’s just really good at foreshadowing. Creation is the first time God rests. The second is recreation. Here, God demonstrates the reality that rest follows work, as it will after the cross … for us (which we’ll get to). Not only that, but His love for us extends even to modeling the “rest” principle for us. He isn’t weak, we are … also pointing to Christ.
  • God commands rest as part of His “Top 10” commandments (Exodus 20:8-11) . Again, this command is given to us out of love. God never intended us to believe we could actually live up to the standard of His perfection, but gives us these commandments so that we would recognize His unattainable perfection compared to our extreme weakness. Exodus 20 is an early chapter in God’s redemptive love story.
  • God leads us to rest, both from Egypt in the Old Testament (laid out succinctly, but in the negative, in Psalm 95:8-11) and (in a brilliant, intentional parallel) from the Law in the New Testament (Hebrews 3-4). God promises Moses to provide the people rest in His presence (Exodus 33:12-23), but the people have no faith, and in tragic judgment they are denied rest and condemned to die in the wilderness (Numbers 14:21-25). In both cases, the Bible juxtaposes “slavery” and the land of God’s “rest”.

I feel like I keep choosing slavery. At its core, at least for me, it’s essentially a battle with insecurity. I continually look for other people and circumstances to validate me. When others think well of me, I think well of myself. When I perceive myself to have failed or disappointed others, I feel like a failure. And when I feel I haven’t been enough for God, I feel the most acute sense of this failure. My fundamental problem… That I mistakenly believe God is grading me the way the world is grading me. Rather than resting on Christ — who loved me so much He would rather die than see me a slave and condemned to death — I stir restlessly on the hot coals formed by my projection of the fallen world system onto the Kingdom of Heaven. My heart is far more attuned to winning approval than it is to God’s unwavering and certain love for me. Did Christ’s death and victory and offer of new life not demonstrate that love clearly enough for me?

Whether I see it or not, Jesus did the work. It is finished, and, as it did in creation, rest follows work.

Paul admonished the Philippians, “Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh…. [Whatever this world has to offer, I count] as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection.” (Phil 3:2-10a)

On too many days, I’m the “dog” Paul is talking about. I agonize over my performance. Was my work good enough? For all I desire is to complete my work, so I can rest, hearing that I did well. But God’s circumcision is of the heart. I cannot get it right, so there’s no point in the agonizing labor. My flesh is assured to fail me (refer to the Law in general), so confidence (or fear) in it is foolish and dangerous. That same uncertainty led to the failure of the Israelites to enter rest in the land God promised them, and threatens to prevent my rest in a far greater land God has promised me.

But my great hope is in the finished work of Christ. On my good days, I realize it. Jesus’ work is completely done, so His rest is freely available to me. And He bids me to enter … to “be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith” (Phil 3:9). Found in Him… Oh, I want that! Everything else fades away, and we realize that we’re just His … overwhelmed by and fixated on who He is. Not on me. By myself, I started out a failure and will end a failure. All of Adam’s race the same… careening to destruction. But in Christ, we are renewed. Dead, but now alive. Satisfied. Complete. Finally whole. Fully loved. Enough to be a son (or daughter) of the Living God.

  • And so, for our good, God commands rest. The only work left is the work of stillness; to “cease striving and know that [He is] God.” (Psalm 46:10 NASB) And that, regardless of circumstance, is enough. God’s command too is loving … to rest and let it be enough.
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Am I Enough?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Jeff Block
My Strength

Not enough…

Part of the process we’re going through in my preaching methodology and theology class this semester is to ask questions of ourselves about our preparedness to teach God’s Word. Last week, one of the questions we had to tackle in our journals was “In what ways do you find it difficult to trust God?” Such a great question! After some pondering, I came up with a few thoughts, and I thought I’d share some of them.

The first thing God brought to me is that I wrestle with the question of “enough”. Sometimes I find it difficult to trust God to be enough, when I’m not enough. Enough for what, exactly? Well, specifically, to do what God has called me to do. When the rubber meets the road, will I have the … strength? smarts? savvy? simoleons? whatever I imagine it’s going to take to actualize God’s plans and purposes?

You probably caught it just from the way I asked the question… I don’t really think it’s the right question. What we’re really asking when we ask a question like that is… Does God have the resources to achieve His purposes? Is HE enough?

In 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Paul explains to the Corinthian church — who are struggling with trying to decide which teacher among them is the greatest — that it is in fact God’s strength that matters, and that God’s strength in fact radiates in our weakness…

First, God made Paul weak on purpose, ostensibly to draw Paul to Christ. Paul formerly viewed himself as strong, but has now realized that strength was an illusion … even a delusion (see the preceding verses back into chapter 11).

Second, even though Paul begs, God refuses to take away Paul’s weakness and replace it with a self-sufficient strength. God desires the dependence born out of Paul’s weakness. He knows it’s better for Paul to be weak and depend on Him than to be strong himself, even if the strength were provided by God.

Lastly, God graciously revealed His plan to Paul (and to us) that “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor 12:9)

In the end, Paul boasts in his weakness, knowing that therein the power of God is manifested and displayed to the Corinthians and throughout history. God Himself achieves His purposes. Our roles are more in acknowledging (boasting in!) our weakness, and running to Him. God is most clearly at work in His weak, incapable, humble, dependent children. The truth is that it’s better to be weak in the lap of God than strong anywhere else!

God's Strength

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)

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The Bottleneck of Little Faith

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Jeff Block
Leap of Faith

The faith to trust what we cannot see

It’s my second semester in seminary (at TEDS), and I’m taking a very interesting class designed to prepare us to preach God’s Word. It’s both a methodology and a theology class, so it focuses both on skills / technique and the reasons behind it — what to do, why to do it, how, etc. But most of all, we’re focused on humbling ourselves before God, and yielding to His authority. His ministry, His calling in our lives, His Word, His approach, His results, His transforming power in the lives of the one who preaches and the one who hears.

To that end, our professor is walking us through a number of “bottlenecks” to (what would get in the way of) effective preaching, which I see as really being bottlenecks to effective ministry … in many cases, to Christian living in general. I don’t know how many of these will be “shareable” or interesting in this context, per se, but what impacts me and seems appropriate, I will share.

The first bottleneck is “little faith”. It is the idea that, if we do not really trust the Lord or His Word, then it will be very difficult to proclaim it powerfully and effectively to others. As an exercise during this section, we were asked to search the Scriptures for truths about God and His Word, and to build a list of “convictions” from them. The following is what I came up with. It is in no way exhaustive — a list like this of what’s true about God and His redemptive work in our lives could fill every scroll we could find — but it is representative and meaningful (at least to me), so I thought I’d share.

I debated writing a mini-commentary on each of these, but I thought instead that if you’re reading this and interested, click through some of the links and read what God Himself said about these things. May reading these Scriptures and meditating on these truths be to you as much of a blessing as it was for me in creating the list. And very importantly, where you feel you cannot confidently say any of these statements about yourself, ask God to show you why. Perhaps He is desiring a deeper relationship with you than you are with Him. Perhaps something is in the way (which by definition would be on your end). And if you want to chat, comment below. I’d love to hear that this list of truths was provocative in someone else’s life as well.

  1. God loves me (John 3:16; Rom 5:8, 8:35-39; 1 John 4:10)
  2. God has chosen me (2 Tim 1:9; Col 3:12a; 1 Pet 2:4-10)
  3. God has forgiven me, redeemed me (Eph 1:7, 2:8; Isa 44:22; Ps 49:15)
  4. God has given me a new life in Christ (1 Pet 2:4-5; 2 Cor 5:17)
  5. God is faithful to me (1 Cor 1:9; Deut 7:9; Lam 3:22-23; 2 Tim 2:13)
  6. God is enough for me (2 Cor 12:9; Ps 62:7, 73:26)
  7. God empowers me to do the good works He ordained for me, and both commands and empowers me to faithfully discharge them (Eph 2:10; 1 Tim 6:12; 1 Pet 5:10; Luke 9:23; John 15:5; Isa 41:8-16; 1 Cor 4:2, 10:13)
  8. God relies on His own capabilities, not mine, to perform His work and purpose (2 Cor 4:7; Isa 41:8-16)
  9. God’s Word is alive and powerful, and will accomplish everything it sets out to do (Heb 4:12; Isa 55:10-11)
  10. God gives me everything I need for the life He’s called me to (2 Pet 1:3-4)
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The Next Unique Me

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Jeff Block
Gandalf the White

“… the dead will be raised incorruptible …” (1 Cor 15:52)

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-54)

I’m not entirely sure why, but for the last year or so I’ve been thinking a lot about heaven, and with all this talk about resurrection (probably brought on by the New Year), I thought I’d share some random thoughts that have been rumbling around in my brain about the future “us”. I feel like people commonly ask what heaven will be like, but I rarely hear people talking about what they think we will be like in heaven. So, I thought that might make an interesting post (maybe even discussion?).

Spiritual CloudsAs eternal beings, we will not float on clouds in heaven. We won’t turn into angels. And we won’t have wings. Unless you played the harp in this life, you probably won’t play it in heaven either. Maybe it’s something you’ve always wanted to pick up, and eternity will provide the time, but I seriously doubt that halos and harps are standard issue at the pearly gates. Nor will we dance around as ethereal spirit-beings of some sort. Heaven isn’t about glowing clouds of sparkly soul light or warm fuzzy gooiness that lasts forever.

As in everything, Jesus is our example. He was the “firstborn from the dead” (Revelation 1:4), the prototype (first example) of what resurrection will be like. Jesus was fully human (and fully God). He died just the way you and I will (except more brutally, I’m sure), and God raised Him from the dead the same way He will raise us. When the apostles saw the resurrected Christ, they saw not only the “exact imprint” of God (Hebrews 1:3; c.f. John 1:18 and Colossians 1:15,19) but also exactly what we would someday be like as resurrected physical beings.

It’s about being bodily raised by the Lord to a new physical life that might surprise us by some of its similarities to our current existence.

Even now, Jesus Christ – God of very God, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah – sits enthroned in heaven at the Father’s right hand… as a physical person with a physical … resurrected … glorified … incorruptible … body. Just like ours will be. We will not float around in space with God and enjoy swirling ourselves into stardust inkblots for the amusement of the stary host. We will walk with God in the garden in the cool of the day. We will lift physical hands to God in worship, and with those same hands we will tend His garden. We will fall down on physical knees before the throne of heaven and Jesus, who physically sits on it. Where God the Father and the Holy Spirit are acorporeal (immaterial, not made of matter and energy), Jesus is corporeal (since the incarnation, straight through the resurrection, even today — He has a physical body) and so are we (both now and after our resurrection into heaven).

Here are a few ways I think we should consider heaven. Remember, this isn’t somehow out of Scripture, but what I believe to be true…

Vastness of the Universe

God’s love… in the vastness of space

This vast universe…

In a million years of space travel, we would barely begin to take in the tremendous expanse God has created. All this was made for us to physically indwell. Someday, “a new heaven and a new earth” will form the same kind of context for us as re-created, resurrected beings. All the beauty and wonder … an endless playground of amazing for us to explore … to show God’s glory and His love for us. Everything with God is “abundance”, starting with the vastness of creation.

The Human Body

God’s love… in the complexity of our bodies

Our incredible bodies…

So intricate and wildly complex, even in our fallen state, God made us unique and wonderful. The Bible says we were “knit together” and “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13-14). But our reconstituted physical bodies will be even better — perfectly suited to their task: full and unencumbered relationship with the God of the universe. All the effects of sin wiped away. No more separation from God. No more sickness or pain, aching joints or slow morning starts. And no more slow decline into death. Hugs and kisses, snuggle times and holding hands, working shoulder-to-shoulder and beautiful eyes and uniquely expressive hair styles … maybe even some tattoos (gasp!) … will all be a part of heaven.

Fun Hair

God’s love… in our uniqueness

And you will be you…

No robots. No clone army. No forced cookie-cutter, get-it-right-or-get-out worship marathons. No white robes designed to drain the color and uniqueness out of life. Oneness of heart and spirit, not of personality. New bodies and new names, but “renewed” and “regenerated” and “resurrected” — not “wiped and reformatted” or “commoditized”. Your uniqueness is a gift of God that He will not take back when He makes you (along with all things) new!

First step, taken. Next step, coming soon.

Heaven will be so much more than we can imagine, and it won’t be about me or you, but about the Great God who adopted us, and about His only begotten Son, our brother, who signed our adoption papers with His very blood. Much of what that all looks like we can’t possibly understand or imagine. But we know this… This life and world isn’t “throw away work”, or temporary in some meaningless way. Though racked with sin and broken, we still see God both in ourselves and in His creation. This world is a gift in so many ways, including providing a glimpse into the eternal reality of our lives with God. And that walk starts now, not “someday”. But I’m glad that even now in spirit and someday physically, God’s resurrection power will complete the good work He started in me … (re)making me perfectly able to physically be with God.

“The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

A cry of commandThis is love!

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The Love of God… Is With Us

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Jeff Block
Merry Christmas

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

As a sinful and fallen people, darkness is our lot in life. Darkness is wherever light is absent. But light conquers darkness, and darkness is powerless to withstand it. Darkness never overcomes light; light can either shine forth and push darkness away, or it can retreat and darkness fills in the vacuum where the light once was.

In our sinful, broken states, we humans no doubt have “walked in darkness”. But the light of God’s love for us will not permit those He loves to walk in that darkness forever …

The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
on them has light shone….
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
And the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and of peace
there will be no end,
On the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. (Isaiah 9:2,6-7)

Lighthouse

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

This was God’s plan from the very beginning. Before the foundations of the earth were laid… In the heart of God before “In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1)… God knew how He would fix our sin problem. And make no mistake, sin is an enormous problem. Not a minor bump-in-the-road kind of problem, but a debt that is unpayable … a burden that is unbearable … the type and magnitude of problem that deceives people into gleefully racing into hell “laughing all the way”. The horrors of sin are the ultimate darkness, but God’s plan from the beginning was that His only begotten Son, the Bright Morning Star, the very Creator God, would take on human flesh and walk among us … and conquer our sin problem. His light would overtake the darkness of our sin…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John [the Baptist]. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. (John 1:1-9)

And so, in the ultimate act of humility and love, Jesus came to us, for us, to be among us, to save us…

Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5b-8)

Cemetery

Once you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh…

No matter how many times I hear this story, it never gets old. Very aptly titled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, the most amazing tale in history is TRUE. We were helplessly and hopelessly dead in our sin. No matter what we did, we could never get to God. So God, in His great mercy, His great love for us, came to us instead.

The Eternal God clothed Himself in flesh. Born in poverty and obscurity, in a dingy cave in a tiny corner of nowhere on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, God crashed into human history … the ultimate light to shine into our ultimate darkness …

The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” … And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 1:26-2:14)

Presents under the Tree

… But God made you alive in Christ!  (Col 2:13)

This is our God… Immanuel. God with us. The Word of God, the Light that shines in the darkness, walks among us. Even lives within us — if we will surrender to Him. So, we are no longer slaves to sin, but our freedom was purchased at the great price of the blood of the very Son of God. God is with us … IF we choose Him over everything else, God’s way over mine, God’s original plan of submission as sons to our loving and all-wise Father …

[Jesus came to our world], and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. (John 1:10-18)

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11)

The greatest gift you have or will ever receive is God’s love clothed in flesh, Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God, our Savior. Not just the Savior of the world, but (I hope) your personal Savior … and mine … the only hope we have to walk with God in the garden in the cool of the day.

God’s gift to you wasn’t under a tree, it was ON a tree — the blood of Christ, shed for you, for the remission of sins. This Christmas, remember Jesus, whom we celebrate. God’s love for you couldn’t be more clear.

Merry Christmas!

The Cross

God’s greatest gift to us was on a tree not under it

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