Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
Philippians 2:6-11 Parenting a seventeen year old who has just got his driver’s license, I am all too aware of the tensions of adolescence. When one is getting used to having the power to do almost anything imaginable, it takes steady humility to accept guidance from someone older and more experienced, and so wisely navigate all the circumstances and possibilities of life. As his guardian, I long for the day when my young man is able to freely and always make wise choices, so that he has a ‘good life’. In a sense I am always an adolescent in the eyes of Father God. He gives me tremendous power to love, to think, to say and to act - and longs that I will always in humility refer first to his wisdom and guidance, so that I can receive the abundant life he has designed me to have. Jesus showed us the way to be humbly obedient to God, by praying his way through his ministry and death. Jesus’ resurrection manifested the rising of the human spirit in full obedience to the Spirit of the Living, all-wise Father God. Will I, like Jesus, live in humble obedience to God to rise up into new life ? Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me, like you, be humbly obedient to God. You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. (Psalm 116:8-9) According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. G.K. Chesterton Soli ad gloriam Gospel Mystery of the Day on FaceBook & www.gospelmysteryoftheday.ca
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AuthorBeverly Illauq lives in Kemptville, Ontario, where she greets each morning by seeking the Gospel Mystery of the Day - the Word of the Lord for direct and practical application to the specific challenges & joys of the day. Archives
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