Final Vision

My first inclination was to not share these words, at least to not post them on "Escape from Averageness". It's the end of the year, a good time for reflection, but reflection can be a distraction. After all, "EFA" is midway through a planned set of posts on work-in-process and the twin components of economic return, to be followed by a connected post explaining why the way the NAHB-recommended Income Statement allocates costs presents problems.

Still . . . I think this is the right perspective for the new year, indeed for dealing with the past five or six years.


December 31, 2011
The Final Vision of the Exalted Lord
Matthew 28: 16-20

By His Ascension, our Lord raises Himself to glory, He becomes omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.

All the splendid power, so circumscribed in His earthly life, becomes omnipotence; all the wisdom and insight, so precious but so limited during His life on earth, becomes omniscience; all the unspeakable comfort of the presence of Jesus, so confined to a few in His earthly life, becomes omnipresence, He is with us all the days.

What kind of Lord Jesus have we? Is He the All-powerful God in our present circumstances, in our present setting? Is he the All-wise God of our thinking and our planning? Is He the Ever-present God, "closer than breathing, nearer than hands or feet"?

If He is, we know what it means to "abide under the shadow of the Almighty".

Still Higher for His Highest, Oswald Chambers (compiled by D.W. Lambert, 1970)