Vision

“The Brothers Karamazov” is a great book by Dostoevsky. The theme is “What would life be like without God?” There are people living consistently as if there is no God. One of the brothers is a priest and he says:

This is what is true. I believe like a child, that suffering will be healed and made up for; that all the humiliating, absurdity of human contradictions will vanish, like a painful mirage; that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all of the hearts, for all of the comforting of all the resentments for all the atonement for the crimes against humanity, for all the blood that has been shed, that will make not only possible for us to forgive but to justify all the acts that have happened.

That is a huge vision of future things, that when Christ returns, He is going to bring all things – injustice, bloodshed, violence, pain and suffering, He is going to bring all those things back together and put it under one thing, the Head, that is Christ. He is going to use a Church to do that.

~ from sermon notes written by Matt Cassidy, Grace Covenant Church, Oct 14, 2012