i have to confess that these two passages also happen to mean a ton to me personally. One of them is a passage that i got hooked on back in college, which has led to me trying to live my life by this passage, as well as leading to the name of this community. The other became very important to me in seminary...and it has fed into mine and Mandy's marriage, becoming what we believe God has called us to do and be in life. So, when i look at these passages...for me, one is who i am to be...and the other is what i am to be about...make sense?
Alright, so by now you are probably itching to know what these two passages are...Isaiah 61.1-3(Luke 4.18-19) and Philippians 2.5-11. Jesus quotes the Isaiah passage in Luke 4 and declares this to be his mission...Phil 2 is a beautiful, what was probably a hymn at the time, description of who Jesus was. Over the next week, i'll take time to write about these two things...but I wanted to point out something that i saw connected in the 2 passages. In each of these passages, right at the end of them...it points to the end result being God would be glorified. In the Isaiah passage, the broken, busted up, and forgotten become 'oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.' And in Philippians the end result of being obedient to God, even to the point of death, the end result of emptying himself is that Jesus is the name that all will bow to and worship, 'to the glory of God the Father.' So who I am, and what I do, are to be for the glory of God...not for me to feel better about myself, or because i want to do something nice, but because in the end God will be glorified because of it...
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