Thursday, January 11, 2018

He is ours and we are His

I discovered this beautiful paragraph which reading an Epiphany sermon by the sainted Normal Nagel.

The delight and pleasure of God are in His beloved Son, and that is where we are too.  What is ours in His; what is His is ours.  So God delights in us too.  If our hearts would take this in, Martin Luther said, they would burst for joy into a hundred thousand pieces.  In a world that is given over to sin, death and the devil, there is one point where the delight of God dwells. "This is My beloved Son with whom I am well pleased."  That is where we are in solidarity with Jesus.  With Jesus there is God's delight.  God, Christ, you - all together like one thing.