Insightful Musings on theScriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

Hello, dear ones.

It’s still morning—but I sure don’t like how close it is to being over with. I/we became so engulfed in other stuff that we didn’t get off our walk/jog routine.

I’ll probably get back to the milling project that I’ve allowed to be front and center. I did not yet drop that big tree. Probably today. Hope I can connect with the landowner—his son, that is.

Have a great day. Blessings.

Love, Dad/Ray.

Let’s make sure we get this straight: Within the context of this FALLEN WORLD, there is absolutely no escaping the law of SOWING AND REAPING—any more than we can escape it in the context of our own gardens. That law is closely related to the laws of BLESSING AND CURSING—all flowing from the personal choices we are given the freedom to make/plant. In fact, like it or not, the default spiritual setting applied to us all is the status of being CURSED—cursed not by sin, evil, or Satan, but cursed by God—“The LORD’S curse…” (See Jer. 17:5; Matt. 25:41; Gal. 3:10). This is how serious the NATURAL SIN NATURE really impacts us in God’s view. In the view of most people, however, SIN is not such a big deal. So who’s right? Which view sees reality with the greatest clarity? Duh! The fact is that SIN is such a serious human affliction in God’s view, so universal, so wretched and detestable, so impossible for mankind to correct on his own, that He actually ordained that His Own Son die on a CURSED cross as “the Lamb of God” to offer mankind’s one and only escape from SIN’S CURSE—so that whoever chooses to believe in His view and the exclusive escape plan that His Son’s substitutional death achieved—that person will be exempted from suffering the otherwise unavoidable consequences of SIN’S CURSE, and actually be awarded eternal UTOPIA with Him (John 3:16). How good is that? Do we really and truly get it?!?!

Therefore…