Dynamic Poise

I keep coming to the idea of what I term "dynamic poise."

The notion is fundamentally existential. It has to do with living the Christian life in this existence that we know. It has to do with being in the place God desires for us. It involves tensions or paradoxes such as faithfulness and effectiveness, the passion of conviction in what we believe and an equal humility in that passion, condemnation and affirmation in Christ, and being called to the utmost standard of perfection and being graced with the widest extension of mercy.

Dynamic poise does not promise resolution in this life, especially in a logical or rational sense, nor in an emotional sense. God's fundamental relation to us is existential or personal, not rational. Hence, God desires us to live in relation to him, not merely in agreement; and God desires us to live then in the world as people in relation to him. That kind of godly living requires seeking and living out - indeed, receiving from him - a dynamic poise.