SPOKE: Journal of Christ

Opening Volley

Pascal was probably best at uncovering our propensity for diversion and deflection. We allow our lives to be caught up in what poet William Everson called, "the blind surf of events" and never finding the "stone levels" that possibly lay beneath.

I was recently accused of not seeing Christ as "Absolute". I said that Christ, as far as I was concerned, is beyond Absolutes.

The breath that you draw, the holding together of your being, your own ramblings about God and the world you will encounter out "there" today are all held together in Christ, the Living One, and in Him alone. It was the Father's good pleasure for "all the fulness" to dwell in Him bodily and all things find their consummation and Life in Him.

Now this idea is far beyond a set of propositions about Christ that one can agree or disagree with. In fact, once again, I would say that all your energy spent in doing either comes from Christ. (Christ is generative...I am simply, er...degenerate?)

Christ is not an Absolute as much as all Absolutes come from the Living Jesus.

Or, as C.S. Lewis says about apologetics...once we are done with our arguments about Christ they all seem a bit thin and flimsy and we must "fall back from our arguments about Christ into the arms of Christ Himself."

The Religionists are always trying to nail Christ down. But He is alive and all things were created and patterned in Christ, through Christ and for Christ (so says Paul in Colossians...please do read it).

So spend some time today with this audacious loving God Whose feet are like the clay of the Earth, Whose heart is continually broken yet also on fire with passionate love, and Whose mind created and permeates the most beautiful things you will see today.

And it's personal. He knows your name. And He is everywhere if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.

~Mac

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