The Anglican Priest

All this made me thankful that I have the hope of Christ and God’s promise of a New Creation, a new field of dreams if you like. There will be a radically new Creation, one without sin, brokenness in all of its forms, or death; but there will also be continuity. I do not know what this will look like, I only know it will be. I look forward to having a new resurrection body and being reunited with my loved ones, all of us living directly in the presence of God. I am thankful God loves his ugly creatures so much that he did what was necessary for us to live with him forever. I am glad that in Christ there is real healing, redemption, and restoration. If I did not have that hope, the sadness and sorrow over all that I have lost—and will continue to lose—in the course of my life would be unbearable, simply unbearable. That, I think, is why Field of Dreams, is so poignant and emotionally powerful. It hints at what God has in store for us.

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It would be foolish to believe that a man who has faith in you, O God, but who does not know the track of the Great Bear constellation, is worse off than the man who measures the sky and counts the stars and weighs the elements but neglects you who give to all things their [...]

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“But I do not know how to awake and rise!” I will tell you. Get up, and do something the Master tells you; so make yourself his disciple at once. Instead of asking yourself  whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because he said, Do it, or [...]

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The perfection of [God's] relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defects, all our evils. That [person] is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering [...]

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As soon as even service is done for the honor and not for the service sake, the doer is that moment outside the kingdom. But when we receive the child in the name of Christ, the very childhood that we receive to our arms is humanity. —George MacDonald, Creation in Christ Share on Facebook

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