https://blogs.icmda.net/2020/07/30/contentment-a-myth-or-reality-in-this-restless-world/ Comments on healthcare, christianity and world mission Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blogs.icmda.net/2020/07/30/contentment-a-myth-or-reality-in-this-restless-world/#comment-273 Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:06:17 +0000 https://blogs.icmda.net/?p=590#comment-273 Thank you for your thoughtful reflection on finding our rest in the Lord. However reflecting on the commentary of the life of John Lewis makes me realise that broadly speaking there are two types of social aspiration, those who hanker after some mythical golden past ( Israel hankering after the time of David and Solomon, evangelicals hankering after the age of the Reformation or the time of Calvin, or to the primitive early church, or the era of the British Empire, conveniently forgetting the Colonial damage of that era, or most recently the dream to Make US Great Again) and those like Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Lewis, Barak Obama, who are looking forward towards a dream yet to be realised, an eschaton over the horizon, like Isaiah 2:1-5, we live for a future yet to be realised and therefore we will never be content until That Day. Those of the light will never be content with the status quo, but are always looking forward in hope, and therefore working tirelessly to be ready when the Master returns. We are looking forward restlessly in hope for the Day of Judgment, mercy, justice and love.

]]> https://blogs.icmda.net/2020/07/30/contentment-a-myth-or-reality-in-this-restless-world/#comment-270 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:19:24 +0000 https://blogs.icmda.net/?p=590#comment-270 Thx Dr for such a beautiful and transforming piece

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