Fractals
Complex Geometry, Patterns, and Scaling in Nature and Society
The heavens are recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse is declaring. ( Psa 19:1, YLT version ). If ever we needed to understand the amazing grace of God, it is through His creation. God did not have to create the world, but He chose, through sheer grace, to do so. And yet, this grace does not save. It takes the apex of His redeeming work, the incarnated Son of God - Yeshua ha Masiah - to complete the work of redeeming grace.
This message utterly removes any vestige of boasting from humankind. The work is totally God's. In humility, as our hearts are ravished with the amazing story of His matchless love for us, we respond to His grace. And we find, so amazingly, that He not only forgives us of our sins, our rebelliousness, our stubborn insistence to live independently of Him, but He also declares us 'not guilty!'. He declares that the finished work of Christ, His Son, at Calvary, and with His resurrection, we are justified to receive ALL that Christ procures for us. Christ transfer to us, as we believe upon Him, all Christ is, that is, His privileged position and power. No wonder this message was foolishness to the Greeks, and an offence to the Jews!
Trusting in Christ, I need not trust in people's opinion of me, or even of my own opinion of me! I am set free from the expectations of any person, and I can just enjoy that I am 'accepted into the beloved'! I am free to allow the Spirit of His Son to live out Christ in me, the hope of glory. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, which saved a wretch like me. And what is my response? All of my days, I will live to worship my Savior who pursued me relentlessly, and allow His life to be lived in and through me. What a privilege!
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