Soul Sister Time

              On Holy Week Jesus looked over the city of Jerusalem and grieved.  He cried: “ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”               Jesus was experiencing a broken heart.  What caused Jesus’ broken heart?  Was He broken hearted about the sins the nation had committed?  Just read about one of those kings in Israel and see how they led their nation to do the very opposite of what God asked, especially in the places of worship.  It is bewildering.  The ugliness of sinful behavior seems like it would be more than a holy God could take.   Yet, that is not what broke Jesus’ heart. It wasn’t the thought of the woman brought to Him because of a...

            Psalm 51:13 says: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you . What an outrageous thought—a person who just pled guilty to first degree murder, along with other noncriminal offenses such as deception, lust and adultery suddenly becomes qualified to teach others about sin!   What more crazy, unpredictable, insane direction could Psalm 51 take us now?   Seriously, shouldn’t David’s days of teaching sinners be the last thing he thought about after God confronted him with his sin?   How did coming face to face with the reality of his sin bring him to the conclusion that he would be the person to teach other sinners about God’s ways?             I heard JI Packer once explain that it’s not so much that people fall from faith, rather, it’s just that some people have not been deeply converted in the context of ...