Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional- 34

EPHESIANS 1:9-10| ⁹ He has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, ¹⁰ as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

HEBREWS 1:1-2| ¹Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.

Jesus is the center of the center in both scripture and life itself. The reason scripture begins with creation and ends with the renewal of all things, with a new heaven and earth, is to emphasize that everything and everyone is part of a story authorized by God. The biblical narrative is not simply one story among other stories, developed by people struggling with existential questions. It is God’s narrative revealing the great purposes and unified plans that give meaning to us and to the cosmic realities within which we live and move.

Now this perspective is the great and controversial dividing point. It fixes the relationship between revelation and reason, philosophy and theology, the knowledge of God and human understanding. Only one stands at the center and it is not an emperor, an intellectual, a priest, a revolutionary, a devil, or a saint. No one else can unify “things in heaven and things on earth.” Any other ideology or divinity or power that pretends to unify things apart from Christ is false.

Can you see, in a fresh way, why the bible is so distinctive?

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