I am preaching this Sunday in our Remembrance Day service (which is an honor) and have been thinking about things such as pacifism and just war theory.
A quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s unfinished book Ethics discusses the agony of willfully acting against the known will of God (which could apply to either side of the argument depending upon where you stand):
“When a man takes guilt upon himself in responsibility, he imputes his guilt to himself and no one else. He answers for it… Before other men he is justified by dire necessity; before himself he is acquitted by his conscience, but before God he hopes only for grace”
How much of our lives are made up of decisions and actions that ultimately require the grace of God to survive? How much of our lives can be characterized not as an act of faith but as a lack of faith? The whole of our lives I believe. What would happen if we truly and fully trusted God and had faith in His Word? Transformation. Earth changing transformation. But that’s a lot of faith…
Harnessing Chaos 