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The Sixth Day Exercise for February 20, 2016

daily text logoFebruary 20, 2016

Hebrews 12:1-2

 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 

CONSIDER THIS

“Do not suppose that this is the kind of drama one can view from a grandstand seat.  We are not to be spectators of something that happened once upon a time.  The Bible is not a book of ancient history.  It is more like the commedia dell’arte, a dramatic form which flourished in sixteenth-century Italy.  In this kind of drama, the players were asked to improvise, to put themselves into the story.  To be sure, it was not a free improvisation, for there were some given elements:  there was the director, there was a company of actors, and there was a story plot which was given to them in broad outline.  With these given elements they were told to improvise—that is, to fill in the gaps on their own.

We too, are called upon to improvise—that is, to put ourselves into the story and to fill in the gaps with our own experience.  We must be ready to get onto the biblical stage and participate personally—along with the ‘company,’ the community of faith—in the dramatic movement of the plot, act by act.”

–Bernhard W. Anderson, The Unfolding Drama of the Bible

DO THE SIXTH DAY EXERCISE HERE.

In case you are new to the Sixth Day Exercise. In case you are just joining us, each week we share in an exercise called “The Sixth Day Exercise.” As Genesis 1 has it, God created human beings in his own image on the sixth day. Genesis 3 shows us the desecration of the image of God in our race which has only compounded itself across the centuries. It’s why the Image Bearer himself, Jesus Christ, came. His life, death, resurrection and ascension reversed the curse of sin and death and created a pathway whereby our broken race could be made gloriously whole again; restored to the Creator’s intent. Paul put it this way:

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:22. 

Given we were made on the Sixth Day, it makes sense that we might stop and assess how it’s going on the long journey of being “remade” on each successive sixth day.

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J.D. Walt serves as Seedbed’s Sower in Chief.  jd.walt@seedbed.com.

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