Comments on: Happy Tensions: Humility + Contentment http://www.deTheos.com/2008/05/28/happy-tensions-humility-contentment/ deTheos = but GOD, who is rich in mercy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:31:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jeff http://www.deTheos.com/2008/05/28/happy-tensions-humility-contentment/#comment-10613 Jeff Fri, 30 May 2008 02:20:33 +0000 http://www.deTheos.com/?p=429#comment-10613 <em>"The implications are phenomenal and so far-reaching I don’t know that I’ll ever comprehend it."</em> I totally agree, Jake, as you might guess. Tim Keller and Darrin Patrick especially (as well as others like John Piper and my good friend Adam Poole) have helped me -- well, almost as much as my wife! -- realize that seeking to find value in what I <em>do</em> is a vain pursuit, and that to be "in Christ" is the greatest reality/title ever. A Son, a beloved child of God, a saint while simultaneously a sinner, yes, becoming the man God has redeemed me to be. And God loves me now, and not just a future version of me!? An incredible and never-ending journey, to be "be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law [performance], but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith" (Phil. 3:9). Union with Jesus is the most mysterious and beautiful truths ever. I think studying true Identity is like the Gospel, the deep end we get to swim in, continually, and always looking outside our fallen selves. “The implications are phenomenal and so far-reaching I don’t know that I’ll ever comprehend it.”

I totally agree, Jake, as you might guess.

Tim Keller and Darrin Patrick especially (as well as others like John Piper and my good friend Adam Poole) have helped me — well, almost as much as my wife! — realize that seeking to find value in what I do is a vain pursuit, and that to be “in Christ” is the greatest reality/title ever. A Son, a beloved child of God, a saint while simultaneously a sinner, yes, becoming the man God has redeemed me to be. And God loves me now, and not just a future version of me!? An incredible and never-ending journey, to be “be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law [performance], but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith” (Phil. 3:9). Union with Jesus is the most mysterious and beautiful truths ever.

I think studying true Identity is like the Gospel, the deep end we get to swim in, continually, and always looking outside our fallen selves.

]]> By: Jake Belder http://www.deTheos.com/2008/05/28/happy-tensions-humility-contentment/#comment-10586 Jake Belder Thu, 29 May 2008 02:57:38 +0000 http://www.deTheos.com/?p=429#comment-10586 I took a systematic theology class this past semester that in part dealt with biblical anthropology, and I still think about it almost every day. I've never thought so much and so hard about what it means to have our identity located and centered in Christ. The implications are phenomenal and so far-reaching I don't know that I'll ever comprehend it. So I'm identifying a lot with what you're saying here, Jeff. I took a systematic theology class this past semester that in part dealt with biblical anthropology, and I still think about it almost every day. I’ve never thought so much and so hard about what it means to have our identity located and centered in Christ. The implications are phenomenal and so far-reaching I don’t know that I’ll ever comprehend it. So I’m identifying a lot with what you’re saying here, Jeff.

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