We are under grace, and we are ourselves the objective of its attack. Not only is it impossible for us to escape it, but we cannot even stand aside as spectators watching the progress of the assault and waiting for it to die down. We are, moreover, ourselves the attacking party, for, as we may pass from death to life, and may discover that we are ourselves united to God in His active contradiction of our ‘life’. Through this divine contradiction the new individual, created and redeemed by God, is shown forth as the invisible reality of our very existence, while our visible reality is declared to be untruth. The divine contradiction means that we are not we, and the attack develops from our existence in God — His servants ye are. There is no other existence running side by side with our existential existence. We are servants, slaves, existentially appointed unto obedience. We are servants to God, existentially appointed unto obedience to the divine ‘No’, which is pronounced in us against sin. We are in no position to say ‘Yes’ to sin.

Posted on March 1, 2010