My notes this day in my "God Calling:"
'1985 - How may I serve Thee?
'1986 - By seeking to be least in self.
'2021 - By not seeking to be least in self, but by not resisting being least.'
There is the difference between a self-determined objective and the living objective of God. Actively seeking a want, no matter how holy the want seems to be, is sliding an I-want in front of a possible God's will.
The problem no doubt is God's will rarely seems wantable...doable, yes, but wantable? Not so much. Face it, it's either ho-hum, boooring (go help your neighbor rake leaves) or personally questionable (make nice with the one who told others a canard about you).
Why ask God to go before us to make either of those crooked places straight when neither have any spiritual heft to them? How is something so mundane going to get angel wings? And making nice to a bald-faced liar who has done me wrong? That simply cannot be right.
To our reasoning mind.
Ah, here we are again, back at the place where our reasoning mind is required to deny itself...more to the point, we are required to do spiritual over our preferred reasonable: We must go beyond reason to love.
We go beyond reason by not seeking to be least in self, but by not resisting being least...by opening to and for the benefit of others.
We claim that God has our back. This is the spiritual path that leads us through our fear of showing it.
Thank you.
[Important exception: "When someone cannot or will not hear us, do not tarry there...shake the dust off your feet and move on." (Matthew 10:14)]
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