Tag: righteousness

Portals

Posted on by Olaf

Mortals love portals!  Technically speaking, on the one hand portals refer to gateways, doors and openings.  On the other, a portal specifically means a website or web page providing access or links to other sites.  It is a word that has grown in popularity and breadth of application to include video games and various secure log-in technologies. How do you understand the word?  What portals would you say that you use or rely on for your everyday life or for the deeper things? With the rapid changes, today’s technology will be yesterday’s technology tomorrow!  You need multiple connections to keep up but even those portals for mortals are soon out of date. 

  •  ‘A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known’ – Roy H Williams

RIGHTEOUSNESS from above

Posted on by Olaf

Isaiah spoke of a righteousness that was high above the heavens and prophesied that it would be poured down upon the earth:  ‘You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down.  Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it’ – Isaiah 45:8.  Although he told of a virgin being with child and of a suffering servant-leader, just how we could be declared righteous was unclear.  Over 700 years later, revelation comes with the person of Christ Jesus as to how we can be righteous, now.

Do you see personal righteousness as a lofty ideal beyond the bright blue skies or as a ‘now reality’?