Good Friday thought
April 2nd, 2010 by Kristin
C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves writes:
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing – or should we say “seeing”? there are no tenses in God – the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath’s sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a “host” who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and “take advantage of” Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.
What an ultimate “good” this must have been; declared at creation, consummated on Golgotha. But it wasn’t a good designed for God; there is no good to be added, or deficit to be addressed, in His being.
It was a good for us.
Hey Pastor Bob
I can not find your teachings?????
How do I watch service live?????/
Have a great Easter
Dennis
Hi Dennis
It’s good to “see” you. The live stream link is there on the sidebar (to the right I believe)
The teachings will be back up in the next day or two…it’s taking a while to get them situated again. Thanks for being a part…from way over there. God bless you and your family.
All for us–because of us! What could be more beautiful? What a glorious God we serve.
@Dennis – the teachings aren’t back up yet. They will be soon
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In the sidebar there is the “watch live” link.
Hi I am a first timer on this page, how can I make best use of it?
Visit regularly to keep track of what’s going on at NCC, watch our live feeds and download studies from our audio archives (which should be up by the end of the week).