To Know

I was researching C.S. Lewis to find out what it was about his theology that made it so that I could not agree with him. I found out that he was Anglican and that he considered George MacDonald to be his mentor so I looked into George. To be sure I don’t know what C.S. thought of George’s theo. From his, George, stories I couldn’t tell what he taught - so I got a book of his sermons with a little biography in it. His theo was wild! For example, he considered that when God said that He was not willing that any should perish, that meant that after death everyone would realize the truth and accept it and go to heaven.
There is a one liner of George’s that I do agree with – as it stands (I don’t know what it really meant to George himself). To me it states a fundamental aspect of our freedom in Christ. "When a man can do a thing, then he can abstain from doing it" (The Lady’s Confession chp 21 Cowlane Chapel). My reading of Job tells me that God’s idea in creating us in His image and with the ability to make up our own mind was that He is pleased and honoured to have people choose to love Him for His own sake. "I can eat meat but if it will stumble my brother I will not" The Bible is not God, the law is not God, we have to get to know Him from His living Son with the help of the Holy Spirit whom He sent to be with us and in us for that very purpose. Why else did Jesus not stay here to be with us on earth? - because we would never get to know God, we would always be distracted by the human Jesus. God doesn’t want us to know the Bible, He wants us to choose Him and know Him!
My goal is to hear Him call me by name some day. I can claim to know a lot about Prince Charles. What do I think of him? Well it is a mixed bag. I do share a birth year with him, and Israel as a nation, so I have some extra interest in him. Now I could, and wouldn’t mind, some day meet Prince Charles and go around claiming to know him. But it will be a grand day when he sees me in a crowd and calls out, "Ian ol’ chap come here and let us talk."
Taking an oath to the seven sacred statements (ie, keep the laws of God) does not afford this kind of freedom any more than the cavalier attitude shown by so many christians. Cavalier, adjective; free and easy, gay and offhand. (just in case you forgot – gay adjective; lively, full of spirit, lighthearted bright, and sometimes tending toward frivolous)(unfortunatly gay has a dark side which has of late eclipsed the happy word that it used to be. Wanton, Licentious) We are not under the law, we are on the other side of death; and freedom in Christ is not for us to squander on ourselves. We are back to Maxwell 1:1 "Keep balanced" ! ! !