I’ve got a feeling that while what I posted in “Part I” may make some sense, it may still leave a lot of questions unanswered. Perhaps questions like: “If God’s desire is for us to be so comfortable, rested and pleasured, how do you explain the torture, jailing, and gruesome killing of Jesus’ first disciples? And the promise that we’ll experience persecution and share in his sufferings? And the fact that life is painful and difficult?” It does seem like…
Food. Sex. Pleasure. Comfort. Rest. Ruling. Does this sound like a list of things that some preacher somewhere should preach against? Does this blog title sound like some hedonistic reality show? I admit that my knee-jerk reaction might be something like that. But I’m learning something entirely different. Early this year, I began to see a new theme emerging. That all of these things come as gifts from God. He thought them up himself and then rained them down as gifts for the…
