Eight Foot Ceilings

This Post is from Margie Pearson

In Chapter 4 titled “Eight Foot Ceilings”, Mark Batterson talks about faith, and our assumptions that limit God. He says, “Faith is not logical. But it isn’t illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation…. Faith is not mindless ignorance; it simply refuses to limit God to the logical constraints of the left brain.”

These thoughts meant one thing to me at the time of initially reading them; but now, during the Christmas season, they mean something else. God entered our humanity through His son Jesus. He was born of a virgin, in accordance with prophecies spoken centuries earlier. He grew up as a perfect child in an imperfect world. He chose the cross, in order to be the sacrifice for our sin, so that our sin would no longer separate us from God. In truth, I find this hard to wrap my mind around, but in faith, I embrace this reality.

I embrace the fact the Jesus came to redeem me, and gave His life to set me free from my sin. “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),”- Luke 1:68-70

During this holiday season, and everyday, I want to choose to say thank you God for adding yourself into the equation, for being Emmanuel.

Margie Pearson