I prefer the phrase ‘life-giving’ to all other words to describe the nature of Christ. Was he gentle, meek, humble, healing, preaching….? Was he angry and acted violently against injustice? At every movement of Christ there is an inspired perspectival choice. It was for and towards ‘life.’
Life surprises us with spontaneous emergence. There is also such surprise at times may be shocking too, in the spontaneity of the inspiration of Christ. It reveals in the moments of history, cultural emergences, cry of the oppressed, in nature both in its beauty and in its pain. We may be afraid, because we are not at ease with strangeness. Our confidence is the trust in him to know that it is Christ. Basic nature of faith is not some clear definitions or principles, but it is Christ and his character.
Something to ponder is this: How much is the Christness in the ‘christian’ life we live, ‘christian’ beliefs we hold dear, and the principles we want to defend? Are they life-giving?
If we are finding shelter in Christianity of some preferred ideologies, we are creating bubble houses for us. We are at the risk of losing them, so always in a concern its protection.
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Reflecting on St Luke and the nature of the gospel he narrated.
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