Summary
Because when your teacher does that, when you ask a question to a teacher, and the teacher comes back with a question, the teacher is trying to force you to a different level, trying to force what's behind the question, trying to force you to ponder it. The Lord comes and through His word, He reveals to us those times in which we live with expediency where we're more concerned about what's good for me than what's good for the other. It is the negative meaning of expediency but there's also the positive meaning of expediency and the positive meaning of expediency is that which has been official in the most positive of senses. It's cleansing to be able to live the life, not in the ways of the world and what the world wants and all of the pragmatism, but in the ways that God wants and God empowers the life that is born out of principle, not simply what works in the moment, a life born on the well-spring of scripture itself and it's cleansing to live, cleansing to live as a people, not out of pragmatism, but out of principle. To choose that which will glorify him the right road that he has revealed through his word, whatever comes, whatever bone for pain comes and in doing that, on being on that right road of choosing that right road by his grace, it's that cleansing is it not. Because amidst whatever comes the way from choosing that which is right, whatever comes because of choosing that way, we know it's the way that's bringing him glory and all of life is simply to be lived with the audience of one bowing before him and we're read, we're read, how live born of principles born of the focus on the other, we're freed to say, I want the right road, I want the right road, not the easier expedient.
Video citations
- Who is Jesus? Expediency 12-17-23 — Would you open your Bibles, please, with me to the 20th chapter of the Gospel of Luke? If you're using a Pew edition of Holy Scripture, you're going to find that on page 72 in the New Testament, the…