Salvation

He saves us from us.

There is no other name,

That I would rather know,

Than the name of Him who washed me, 

Whiter than the snow.

A Prayer

"save me from myself.

save me from myself.

help me.

save me from myself.

save me from myself."

-dismantle.repair.

"the heart is deceitful above all things, and beyond cure. who can understand it?"

-jeremiah 17:9

only when we begin to recognize our need for a Saviour, can we even begin to understand the depth and beauty of a loving God, who is mighty to save, and who has broken into time and space, into human history for the sake of restoring what had willingly gone astray.

Barth & The Incarnation

This is how Karl Barth, describes the Incarnate Immanuel (God with us) in his Church Dogmatics:

"God was with us, with us His enemies, with us who were visited and smitten by His wrath. God was with us in all the reality and fulness with which He does what He does. He was with us as one of us. His Word became flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood. His glory was seen here in the depths of our situation, and the full depths of our situation were disclosed for the first time when illumined then and there by the Lord's glory, when in His Word He came down to the lowest parts of the earth, in order that there and in that way He might rob death of its power and bring life and immortality to light."

Amen.