by Karen Mains
All the redeemed salvage that furnishes my home is a metaphorical reminder that Christians should be about the business of redemption because that, indeed, is God’s business. All my salvage reminds me that God specializes in the reclamation enterprises. He is the Original Scavenger, the One who reclaims and recycles those who have been assigned to the garbage heaps and to the discard curbs of the world.
Do you remember this litany from I Corinthians 2?
Not many of you were wise by human standards;
Not many of you were influential;
Not many of you were of noble birth.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;
God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
No wonder I get so much glee from salvaging: It’s in my spiritual genes.
I cannot tell you how much I believe in the power of the godly scavenger hunt. Seeking the outcast, sharing the message of the Gospel with those who feel they are unfit. Telling them of a God who became outcast in order to reclaim and recycle those who were outrageously deformed, discarded and lost. This seems to me to be the essence of the Scripture. It is a reclamation and recycling story. Read full post at Hungry Souls...
All the redeemed salvage that furnishes my home is a metaphorical reminder that Christians should be about the business of redemption because that, indeed, is God’s business. All my salvage reminds me that God specializes in the reclamation enterprises. He is the Original Scavenger, the One who reclaims and recycles those who have been assigned to the garbage heaps and to the discard curbs of the world.
Do you remember this litany from I Corinthians 2?
Not many of you were wise by human standards;
Not many of you were influential;
Not many of you were of noble birth.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;
God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
No wonder I get so much glee from salvaging: It’s in my spiritual genes.
I cannot tell you how much I believe in the power of the godly scavenger hunt. Seeking the outcast, sharing the message of the Gospel with those who feel they are unfit. Telling them of a God who became outcast in order to reclaim and recycle those who were outrageously deformed, discarded and lost. This seems to me to be the essence of the Scripture. It is a reclamation and recycling story. Read full post at Hungry Souls...
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