So my dad, right?
He and I were sitting in a conversation yesterday, a
conversation I was honored to be a fly on the wall at.
Have you ever had a moment of decent clarity, when you’re
there, but you feel so distant because the way you’re seeing something has
changed perspective? Do you know what I mean?
The gospel. Straight forward the gospel, unmingled with
cultural wish-wash or downplaying on the blood, sweat and tears of the
difficulty and beauty of a life lived in faith.
“This is what makes us men, what completes us,” he said
while point at a line on a page, which read, “You must love Jesus.” “He is the truth of the universe, which holds
all things together that are, and if we don’t love him we are lost men.”
That’s my dad, preaching the gospel with passion, fervency.
Casting all his hope onto the 2000-year-old reality, Jesus saves sinners. “I
was saved 2000 years ago when Jesus died on the cross for my sins and all of my
life I’ve been coming to understand that more.”
Yet, this post shouldn’t be a praising of my dad, he’s cool
alright (and he has Harry Potter classes), but he’s just a sinner. No, this
should be a post which is interpreted as this:
“[They] find so
much perfection and goodness [that] not only answer and satisfy [their]
affections, but master and
overpower [them] too: [they] find all [their] love to be too faint and
languid for such a noble object, and [are] only sorry [they] can command no
more. [They] wish for the flames of a seraph, and long for the time when [they]
shall be wholly melted and dissolved into love: and because [they] can do so
little [themselves], [they] desire the assistance of the whole creation, that
angels and men would concur with [them] in the admirations and love of those
infinite perfections.” ~ Scougal
May dad and I get to worship the same God together. Be infatuated by him, be set aflame by him, preach and teach to others about him, live and die in him. And that is well worth writing about.
