“Have you heard God’s blessing in your inmost being? Are the words “You are my beloved child, in whom I delight” an endless source of joy and strength?
Have you sensed, through the Holy Spirit, God speaking them to you? That blessing – the blessing through the Spirit that is ours through Christ – is what Jacob received, and it is the only remedy against idolatry. Only that blessing makes idols unneccesary.
As with Jacob, we usually discover this only after a life of ‘looking for blessing in all the wrong places.’ It often takes an experience of crippling weakness for us to finally discover it. That is why so many of the most God-blessed people limp as they dance for joy.”
-- Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods
(HT: OFI)
2 comments:
reading this book as we speak....no one pounds the nail squarely and repeatedly into the center of what it means to have "gospel-wakefulness" better than TK.
I also read this book now. Been quite a few lines under the written text.
Keller is awesome to communicate, I agree here.
BTW - sometimes I jump while dancing :) and it feels good.
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