…there is something you’ve simply GOT to read!
I recognize that as we go through the book of Romans, my approach may seem unusual to many of you. In fact for some it may seem entirely strange. In all of our little tours through books of the Bible, I consider my job to be that of a facilitator and catalyst to encourage further contemplative investigation on your part. No, I really don’t care if you see everything exactly the same way that I present it, for if nothing else, I understand that I am just as subject to human error as the next guy. I do hope however, that I encourage my dear readers to think.
This morning I came across an essay about the authority of God which, as you will see as we continue here, has a great deal of relevance to what Paul has presented us with in Romans, and I would like to encourage you to read it. It is not on Romans per se, but it expresses some ideas that might help you to see where our study here is headed; it will also amaze and inspire you in your journey with Christ. I must say that it is the very finest essay on God’s authority that I have ever had the pleasure to read, and I am confident that it will bless you, and so I have rescheduled our next Romans post until tomorrow and ask that you will read Little Monk’s instead. Please give it a read:
Spiritual Warfare: Authority, Part Deux
By Little Monk
Life Project Blog 
Almost I commented on The Postmodern Mystic, but decided to leave my thoughts here. Little Monk’s post fit into, well defined and amplified things that have been running through my mind lately.
1) “…, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.” God gives us pictures in the physical/emotional life relationships of the truths of our spiritual life he intends with us. It occurs to me that when Jesus says we must be willing for his sake to give up home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, fields, etc., he never says spouses. Is that because marriage is supposed to be the closest thing in this life that there is to picture our relationship with him?
2) Jesus never worried/feared that he might fail to accomplish his Father’s will, he just did it!
3) “… one body and one Spirit … one hope … one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
4) “… that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us … I in them and you in me.”
5) “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. … But we have the mind of Christ.”
Enough …
Little Monk’s piece is of the sort that stimulates thought, which prods the imagination so that we begin to see the possible and wonderful that God brings to the table; pieces fall into place…
Thanks for pointing that out. Great read!