Irony is ironic

Today was pretty slow, but at the same time I have a lot of eggs up in the air; thus far I've been good at juggling them. I received word that a longtime missionary couple in Pakistan that is partially supported by my church were murdered in their home last night; sobering news to say the least.

In reviewing the Lord's day messages last night, Pastor Andy drew attention to something that had missed me, due to my earlier epiphanies as cited in my last post. The thought that Christ could be pleased with any of our actions is a staggering one. With a proper biblical understanding of total depravity, it's hard to imagine such a thing, even on my best days. Even Spirit-imparted righteousness leaves one infinitely far off; yet another reason why I will never be a Roman. Only imputed perfect righteousness applied to us allows the Father to see our actions through glasses colored by that righteousness. Every deed is seen as if it were the perfect work of Christ, because He was tempted in every way that we have been. Every deed in which we sin daily disappears next to His perfect works as the moon disappears at noon. And yet God is perfectly just, having punished each of those works in Christ in a single sacrifice. Whoa.

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I suppose that it's irony that when you have lots of time, you don't do those things you've been meaning to do. When you are running around crazy busy, that's when you end up doing said things.

If honesty is the best policy,... then spoken irony is ironic. Or maybe it's coincidence.