Whenever God acts, it must always be with sufficient ambiguity for us to need the interpretation of faith if we are to see the happening as an act of God. Christian faith is, in the last resort, an understanding by faith of every event as the activity of a God who is at once all love, all holiness, and all power. So, without the key of faith, which is the means of interpretation, even the news of the resurrection would be opaque. But faith is not subjective self-deception, for it does not create the fact which it interprets. Only God creates the fact or event, in this case, the resurrection of Jesus. Faith is an appropriation for oneself of the act of God, a grasping hold of that which is real, even if at present unseen.
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- Keith Cox
- I am currently EM Pastor at Rock Presbyterian Church in San Diego. I write here in the hope of somehow in a small way shining the light of Christ, doing a small thing to fulfill Christ's command to make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:19-20), keeping in mind Mother Teresa's admonition that we are not called to do great things, but to do small things with great love.
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