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The Unesteemed

Christ does not represent all that is admired by humanity, for it is the mark of our sin that we can admire despicable things above pure goodness.

Rather, Christ is all that is admired by God; He is all that is God, yet all that God meant humanity to be, the very likeness of God our Father in the flesh.

For that reason we nailed our Brother to the cross, for His perfect love and goodness offended us.

Such is the difference between what we hold dear and what God values most. Yet knowing this, we abhor the thought of a repentance that breaks our hard hearts.

Will we remain lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God?

“He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.”

— Isaiah 53:3-4

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Hi…Thanks for checking in. I live in rural Kentucky, moving from Louisville in 2016. I have a small degree in pastoral theology, studying and pastoring in the U.K., from 2000 to 2009, then in the U.S. until 2012. I am now a part-time driver for the local Amish community. I’m making an honest effort to write more, to write out some thoughts on the spiritual life, occasional comment on current events (I’m apolitical, so not much there), and with some emphasis on my life in recovery from addiction. And then there are those marriages and divorces, not for the sake of raking dirt, but for support for others and perhaps a little for myself. In living, like gardening, I tend to follow the seasons of life.

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A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.

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