Comments on: Burning Question http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501 Ravine of Light Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:46:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-1737 Paul Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:00:37 +0000 http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501#comment-1737 It's an awesome point - the resurected christ is an amazing focus, not least with the promise of phyiscial resurection for us all and life that transcends even the best of what we have tasted now. For me i find the cross a powerful symbol, not least of how God who is above all things broke himself to the lowest of all things so that all of us could be included too - God for me becomes not only a God who can say he is there for me at my lowest but can say he has been to that lowest point too. When Christ is before the Father praying for me, the Father not only sees me through Christ but Christ also fully understands me. Rejected, yes! Betrayed, yes! in pain, yes! alone, yes! hurting, yes! doubting, yes! hoping beyond hope, yes! and so on. OR as Bauckham puts it: "The Servant, in both his humiliation and his exaltation, is therefore not mere;ly a human figure distinguised from God, but, in both his humiliation and his exaltation, belongs to the identity of the unique God. This God is not only the high and lofty one who reigns from his throne in the high and holy place; he also abases himself to the conditioned of the crushed and lowely cf Isa 57:15 'For thus says the exalted and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with those who are crushed and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit ofthe lowly and the heart of the crushed." It’s an awesome point – the resurected christ is an amazing focus, not least with the promise of phyiscial resurection for us all and life that transcends even the best of what we have tasted now.

For me i find the cross a powerful symbol, not least of how God who is above all things broke himself to the lowest of all things so that all of us could be included too – God for me becomes not only a God who can say he is there for me at my lowest but can say he has been to that lowest point too.

When Christ is before the Father praying for me, the Father not only sees me through Christ but Christ also fully understands me. Rejected, yes! Betrayed, yes! in pain, yes! alone, yes! hurting, yes! doubting, yes! hoping beyond hope, yes! and so on.

OR as Bauckham puts it:

“The Servant, in both his humiliation and his exaltation, is therefore not mere;ly a human figure distinguised from God, but, in both his humiliation and his exaltation, belongs to the identity of the unique God. This God is not only the high and lofty one who reigns from his throne in the high and holy place; he also abases himself to the conditioned of the crushed and lowely cf Isa 57:15 ‘For thus says the exalted and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with those who are crushed and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit ofthe lowly and the heart of the crushed.”

]]> By: jamie http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-1735 jamie Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:56:07 +0000 http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501#comment-1735 Oh....I have felt this way for a while! Great post. I think much of why we focus on the cross is out of the same mind-think that causes us to operate out of and focus on the fall. In some ways, you'd think that we'd not had the resurrection. I'm tired and I feel like I'm not being clear, so I hope you understand what I'm trying to say :) Oh….I have felt this way for a while! Great post. I think much of why we focus on the cross is out of the same mind-think that causes us to operate out of and focus on the fall. In some ways, you’d think that we’d not had the resurrection. I’m tired and I feel like I’m not being clear, so I hope you understand what I’m trying to say :)

]]> By: Mindy http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-1733 Mindy Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:51:24 +0000 http://www.calacirian.org/?p=501#comment-1733 WOW....good food for thought. You are correct. WOW….good food for thought. You are correct.

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