When I give without strings, when I serve without seeking
praise or recompense, when I let God use me and delight in watching his power
at work, when I decrease and see Him increase, when my focus is on his goodness
rather than on my own iniquity, when I listen to the other and not to my own
mind’s infernal chatter, it is then that I am most alive, most energetic, most
truly myself.
When I live out the words, “He who loses himself for my sake
will find it (i.e., will discover who he is)--then I have learned that the most
real way of living is to live in the truth of the challenge.
Do I really live all these things fully and without
compromise? Of course I don’t—because I am a sinner weakened by the effects of Original
Sin and, like the prodigal son, I frequently squander my inheritance and lose
sight of my homeland. But I am a sinner redeemed by Christ, and He has redeemed
me, and continually finds ways-very creative ways at times-to draw me back
despite all the deceits and snares of the enemy.
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