The Genesis Pledge

Saturday. Ps. 139: 14-24.

God gave himself to us in Eden and at our birth, his breath, creatively. He gave himself/or us on Calvary, his blood, redemptively. He gives himself with us continually, his Spirit, sustaining, wooing us if we keep him out; shaping the life over on the shape of his own presence as we let him fully in. John 3: 16 is written on the first pages of Genesis. In giving his breath he pledged his blood if ever the need came.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

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