Sárospataki Füzetek 21. (2017)
2017 / 2. szám - TEACH ME THAT I MAY LIVE! - UNTERWEISE MICH, SO WERDE ICH LEBEN! - Barnóczki Anita: "According to everything i command you today" - meditation on deut 30:1-3
Anita Bamóczki to become like other peoples. They wanted the blessings of being chosen, but they did not want its purpose. In the meantime, they experienced blessing and curse; nothing more and nothing else than what the Lord said; growth and glory, scattering and captivity. For the Word of God is certainty. It is reality. It is truth. It is fulfilled. When the Words of God are fulfilled, God gives us an opportunity to take God’s Word seriously. Even when scattered among peoples. Even when finding ourselves at the back of beyond. We know that in Jesus Christ God reaches out to us. In Him God gives us an opportunity to return; and by the Holy Spirit, an opportunity for our hearts and souls to change. This is also the experience of God’s people, the experience of the Christian Church. The story of moving away and returning is the story of God’s people. It is the story of blessings and curses. And it is in the returning that this historical experience strengthens us. God’s people move away from God, take decisions in their own hands, claim God’s church for themselves and abuse her, make the Truth into truths, and make the divine Words into empty words. Finally, they hardly remember where they started from, and where they should return. But there are Times when God allows us to have a better understanding, which leads to conversion. Such a great historical event is the Reformation in which the distant and abandoning church is given the opportunity to return. According to everything God commanded. The church is given the opportunity to recognize Christ as the only way of blessing. She recognizes the Scriptures, in which God’s Word is presented as we should know it. She recognizes grace in the Scriptures. And faith emerges from grace, making Gods people God’s people; people that want to live as God’s people, and devote all their efforts to completing their God given mission. This year is a special opportunity for retrospection. For it has been fulfilled what God spoke, according to everything God commanded. And the same thing is awaiting for fulfillment today; the same thing, but in a different way, because today we are the ones who should hear the Truth, and once we have heard it, we are to testify to it. So that later on we may be looked upon as a generation in whose life it was fulfilled what the Lord had spoken. According to everything God commanded. 10 Sárospataki Füzetek 21, 2017 - 2
