Prodigal: What beauty!

Me: Ain’t that the truth!

This is from the book The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey

Jesus did not say, “All men will know you are my disciples…if you just pass laws, suppress immorality, and restore decency to family and government, ” but rather”…if you love one another.” He made that statement the night before his death, a night when human power, represented by the might of Rome and the full force of Jewish religious authorities, collided head-on with God’s power. All his life, Jesus had been involved in a form of “culture wars” against a rigid religious establishment and a pagan empire, yet he responded by giving his life for those who opposed him. On the cross, he forgave them. He had come, above all, to demonstrate love: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son….”

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. Romans 8:5 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org