From
John 15:1-27
H,
It is
incredibly hard, as you say, to fathom what is right from what is wrong in this
present stretch of life and living. Well, it is hard, if we do not take heed of
the infilling of truth we are promised at the onset. Yes, I am talking of that
Holy Spirit thing. The strange and wonderful idea that God comes to live within
our metaphorical hearts and dwells there to tell us right from wrong as we
navigate the murky waters of being alive.
It is
not so strange when you think about it with a sense of mystery and eschew the
dogma and ‘doctrine’ that turns truth into denominations. If He dwells without
as conscience and within as companion then He engineers this great call to live
out for truth in the most diverse ways. Perhaps He helps us engage our minds in
deciding what the right road to follow is, our hearts to “will and to do” the
service of worship and follow through and the body or actions to do it in the
overt way that witness demands for the spread of the good news about who God
really is.
I know
this sounds incredibly unlikely with sinners like you and I. Well, that is the
point; whoever is forgiven much, loves more. He was known, on earth, to hang
out with shady characters, broken people, ready to change faulted ones. The people
like us. He is trying to teach, preach, sing a song and make a life about the
fault in all of our stars seen as raw material for the great realignment of
earth with the heavenly will.
A pair
of perpetual mess ups (language cleaned up here) are just the right candidates
for a life of grace made out of unruly grass and turned into the stuff of
eternity.
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