The Lens of Theosis

We must receive grace to both perceive and understand our own journeys through the lens of theosis. This is about so much more than what you are called to do, but more importantly this journey is about who you are called to become. You are not primarily being prepared to do a task, but rather you are principally being prepared to become a pattern. An image bearer amidst a culture that has forgotten the rock that begat her.

What if, just what if, all the journey’s challenges and struggles have been preparing you for this specific hour, the hour where you begin to step into the “more” that you and I have cried out for as well as the “more” we have been predestined to become? If you long for nothing more than to be a converted lost sinner that is rescued from eternal judgment, than this message is probably not for you and the messages in most western churches will suit you just fine. But if you, like me, believe we are called to represent Jesus in the same way Jesus was called to represent Abba (that is John 17) then I am convinced we are recovering a patristic Christology that will indeed reform our ideas about what it actually means to be saved. Not simply what we have been saved from, but far more significant is He whom we have been saved for.

Salvation will either mean for you a future entrance into heaven or an immediate access into union. Which way we choose to travel at this great fork in the road will have enormous impact on the state of a cosmos in disarray. We are indeed standing at a crossroads and I can hear the Holy Spirit beckoning us through the words of Jeremiah, “choose the ancient path, the Olam Path and it will go well with you” and may I add that according to Romans 8 it will also go well for the whole of the created order as well. What we choose to do right here right now feels historically and cosmically significant.

Choose well…