Sadistic "I"

Wednesday July 9th, Romans 7: 25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different. A change in western theology from the early 1800’s that has worked its way into American civil religion can be defined as a movement from God and us, to God and I. Rapture theology being latest and most sadistic version of that. When the young man asked the question of Jesus, “what must ‘I’ do to be saved, Jesus told him the story we call the good Samaritan, pointing him to a “we” view of life. It is in the “we” that the “I” begins to see Christ. It is in seeing loving God and love others as one commandment, that the “I” begins to melt into the “we.” That is when we finally drop our shields and see the salvation of Christ that has been there all along.