The next time that you sit down with friends for coffee ask, “And what have you taught yourself and discovered on your own?”
Every answer will be interesting and delightful. There is real joy in what you can teach yourself.
Now, we must apply the same criteria to our spiritual life Although great numbers of people are very satisfied with their spiritual awareness, it does not mean that they are very much spiritually alive.
Do not put too much store on the fact that your mother got you baptized when you were a baby. Always ask, “Did it do that much good?”
The real life of faith for an adult is a life of walking with and discovery of the Spirit of God moving inn their own lives. The whole of our life (no matter how long we live) is a life of discovery of God, wrestling with God, lamenting the horrible state of the world with God and humility to accept how the Spirit of God is empowering you to bring life, power and greater love into this human struggle.
The life of faith is a life of transformation into the likeness and power of God. We are being changed more and more into the love and mercy of God. We are given more patience with our recovering-addict thirty-five year old son. We are calling upon God for wisdom to handle our declining mother as she slowly moves into dementia.
This is the mystery of the resurrection lived out in our lives. The Son of God must now become alive in the lives, the prayer and the daily behavior of believers. In the plan of God ,we are meant to become the Christ, the love and mercy of God in this time and this place.
All the work and ministry of the Church (this includes all believers) is to nourish and support the change that the Holy Spirit is working within us.
Through the sunshine and the storms the Holy Spirit is ever active in your life.
How are you living this life of transformation?
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