Above All: Faith, Our Life and Our Covering

  

In troubled times, we may feel out of communion or severed from the vine we've known as life in Jesus. Situations may cause us to feel so far removed from Him, that we wonder when His love, truth, and unadulterated faith will walk this earth again.

We can't be certain whether prayers should be for His soon return, or for our deliverance back into the church uncorrupted. And we do not know whether to expect His return — or our deliverance from sins as the church — to be through Jesus, the Savior, in a person, or through Jesus, the Savior *, in a people. But we know, with certainty, this one thing:

But as for me, I know my Redeemer liveth, and at last He will stand upon the earth.

Job 19:25

Remember: In Him is true life, and He is meant to live in each of us as Christians.

 

 

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* I can't be sure of A. G. Lotz's meaning, when she says our Heavenly maker is "racial." But I think maybe she means He created us; knows us; knew us long before we were born; knew how we would evolve as families of people (because, truly, we belong to only one "race" — the human race, and, spiritually, we are only one church); and that He smiled upon our ethnic diversity (not our sins!), the way a gardener smiles inwardly, knowing the diverse beauty his crops will produce.