Monday, July 19, 2010

Restore the Roar!






Yahweh (the LORD) roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem
Amos 1:2a






I just heard of a person that admitted that for most of his early life, he only gave one ear to the Lord's speaking to him. He didn't find His Word relevant or important at all for a time. He needed to be woken out of this spiritual slumber. He needed the Lion's roar to wake him up spiritually and bring him back to the Lord.

The lion roaring here in Amos is Jesus, much as C.S. Lewis correctly portrays him as Aslan in the well done Chronicles of Narnia. Too often, however, in our times, the church wants to tone this roar down, to clip the nails of this roaring lion and take the edge off His message of the seriousness of His promises of Law and Gospel. In other words, their message too often doesn't tell people their plight under the law and the wonderful solution in the pure Gospel.

Certainly, the problem we each have is our inability to do the law that God requires, perfectly with pure motivation, all the time without fail. This causes us to look elsewhere for a solution, a savior, a redeemer. This is none other than the Lion sacrificed for our sin, as Lewis portrays so wonderfully in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection on the cross is the true antidote for what poisons us from God's relationship.

May we not resist and disdain when God roars at our spiritual laxity, intolerance and giving only one ear to His Word. Open our lips O Lord to your truth that we may be saved!

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