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Hubbard Glacier, Alaska
A trip to Hubbard Glacier is a ride into sensory overload. Notice that there isn't one point of focus for these cruisers peering off the bow of the ship. The woman in the yellow jacket isn't even facing the same direction as the others (though this might have been due to the cold wind).
Viewing God's wisdom displayed by the church puts the unseen world on sensory overload.
"God's purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places." Ephesians 3:10 New Living Translation
This is a difficult passage to understand. We'd be okay with Paul writing that the Christian community displays God's wisdom to the world, but to reveal this wisdom to the "authorities in the heavenly places" is difficult for us to wrap our brains around.
God's way of doing things doesn't make sense to us. It seems like a risk on God's part that a bunch of sinner/saints would make known his wisdom, especially to the heavenly authorities, yet that is how God works.
As the church is engaged in living out her faith in the One who died and rose for her, she reveals both to the visible and invisible world the manifold wisdom of God. It is a wisdom that baffles even the heavenly beings.
By the way, writing as a candidate for the Hair Club, how does the bald man in the middle of this picture not have a hat on?
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Viewing God's wisdom displayed by the church puts the unseen world on sensory overload.
"God's purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places." Ephesians 3:10 New Living Translation
This is a difficult passage to understand. We'd be okay with Paul writing that the Christian community displays God's wisdom to the world, but to reveal this wisdom to the "authorities in the heavenly places" is difficult for us to wrap our brains around.
God's way of doing things doesn't make sense to us. It seems like a risk on God's part that a bunch of sinner/saints would make known his wisdom, especially to the heavenly authorities, yet that is how God works.
As the church is engaged in living out her faith in the One who died and rose for her, she reveals both to the visible and invisible world the manifold wisdom of God. It is a wisdom that baffles even the heavenly beings.
By the way, writing as a candidate for the Hair Club, how does the bald man in the middle of this picture not have a hat on?
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2013 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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