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Post by Josh Parsley on Jun 26, 2007 22:19:59 GMT -5
I was reading a magazine today and read this paragraph that set me to thinking. It isn't online, so I can't give a link to the whole article. The Christian attitude toward history is neither arrogant self-reliance ("We can make it on our own.") nor indifference ("It doesn't matter what we do anyway.") but hope- the hope that radiates from a messy manger, a ruddy tree, and an empty tomb. Christians are those who know that time and this world do not terminate upon themselves; they are penultimate realities that can never satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart, the restless heart Augustine wrote so much about. And so we live in this world not self-indulgently nor triumphantly, as though our future were in our own hands, but humbly, compassionately, committedly, and yes, ambiguously, as those who belong ultimately to another City, one with foundations whose builder is God.
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