The Pillars That Grace Built
Chris Thomas concludes his two-part reflection on law and grace. See part 1 here. Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing … (Joshua 3:15-16, NIV) The roar of the waters, mixed with the churning brown torrent, were a forbidding objection, “You shall not pass!” A flooded Jordan was no Red Sea, yet the effect was just as devastating. Cut-off from the promised inheritance, it must have been tempting to lose hope...