Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the holy community as food nurtures the human body. Christians don’t simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a away that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus’ name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
- Eugene Peterson, Eat this Book
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Real faith cannot be reduced to spiritual bromides and merchandised in success stories. It is refined in the fires and the storms of pain. . . So, instead of continuing to focus on preventing suffering – which we simply won’t be successful at anyway – perhaps we should begin entering the suffering, participating insofar as we are able – entering the mystery and looking around for God. . .
He is the Creator of the unfathomable universe all around us – and he is also the Creator of the universe inside of us. And so we gain hope – not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain.
Eugene Peterson, Introduction to Job
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I, Paul, have been sent on special assignment by Christ as part of God’s master plan. Together with my friend Timothy, I greet the Christians and stalwart followers of Christ who live in Colosse. May everything good from God our Father be yours! Colossians 1:1-2
I’m working on Colossians, one of my resolutions. I started thinking about “Everything good” and created this visual to give it some legs.
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