Prayer Note #62: Holy Kindness/Kind Holiness

~ gachorpenning

Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho; photo by GAC

Father, it is so hard for me to hold your terrifying holiness and your gentle kindness together in my conception of you. My mind wavers and falls out of balance as I try to keep those true aspects of your character in healthy tension.

Then you either become a cold, distant, barely personal abstraction, or you become a mushy, indifferent old man interested only in pleasing me. You are neither of these.

Enlarge and sanctify my imagination that I might come to know you in all your fullness, to know you truly and rightly, to know you in such a way that the knowledge remakes me more and more in the image of Jesus, who knew you in utter and complete and perfect fullness and truth. In Jesus, you show me yourself in all your holy kindness and kind holiness.

© 2022 Gary A. Chorpenning; all rights reserved; use with attribution.

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I am a husband, father, and grandfather. The southwestern Pennsylvania is currently home, though I've called several other places home before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things out of wood and other materials. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

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