Is God an essential in your life or is God the essential?
"Luther’s faith was a belief in reality, a belief that accepted life’s reality at its face value and did not lend itself to any illusions.
The first and most decisive feature of this faith was the fact that for him God was a reality. Luther’s whole life can be understood only if one knows what this means. We humans, even we Christians, are, for the most part, far removed from recognizing God as the essential, yes, as fundamentally the only reality. The earthly, visible things usually appear much more real to us. To earn a livelihood for ourselves and our families, to hold our own in our professions, to advance, to acquire money and a good position, to write a few scholarly books which promote learning, to give our children a good education, to fulfill our duties faithfully toward our country, etc. — these seem to be the real questions and problems of our life. Over against these God and our association with Him must play second fiddle. Of course, we concede that God is important too; but He must content Himself with our superfluous time and strength. Luther said the very opposite. He granted that all my tasks in life are certainly important too, but most important and most real is God; all else is secondary." Luther's World of Thought. Bornkamm, CPH, c1958, S. 80
Is God an essential in your life or is God the essential?
If God is an essential in your life, than He is to you not the one true God. He is but one among the other things you have believe to be equally or more essential.
Our Lord Jesus testified as to what God the Father made the essential of His life: "Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:10.
- pmwl.
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