I contend that we don't have any better eyesight or insight in our time.
Jesus is still in our midst, right before us, in plain sight and yet He is almost completely invisible to most of us who claim to be His disciples.
Everyday, Jesus comes to us in the distressing disguise of the poor, the suffering, and the rejected and we fail to see Him. Fail to honour Him. Fail to fellowship with Him. Fail to love Him.
He is longing for one true act of communion, when in breaking of the bread we finally ‘rightly discern the body’. The present and imminent reality of Christ is in our midst.
Can we not see?
Can we not hear?
Will we not respond?
Perhaps this seeing, and hearing, and responding will be the fulfillment of our salvation because finally we shall see Him as He is and we shall become like Him.
‘Behold your prince comes riding humbly upon a donkey, a cart, a cot, a stretcher, a wheelchair or limping alone on this road of rejection?’
Can you not stand to behold the presence of God in your midst?
‘When ye do it unto the least of these my brethren (fellow sufferers) ye do it UNTO ME!’
The mathematical equation is the simplest one possible. It says the suffering ARE Christ in our midst, yet we walk by Him everyday, too selfish, too insensitive, too preoccupied with our’ more weighty matters’, too proud and too self absorbed to see or to acknowledge Him.
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
Isaiah 40:3-5 (King James Version)
3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Hebrews 12:12-14 (King James Version)
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
The stone the builders rejected has become the corner
What has been highly exalted in men’s eyes is abhorrent in God’s sight.
Be careful if ye think ye stand lest ye fall.
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen the things that remain?
When will we rouse from our stupor and strengthen.........
When will we rouse from our stupor............
When will we rouse .............
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LH
3 comments:
Hi Jenn
Your encouragement means the world to me.
It is wonderfully ironic (and fitting) that the person who most appreciates and supports my attempts at expressing an authentic faith is unable to share that faith.
I hope you don't mind if I say I feel that God is still very present in you and is often revealed to me in your determination to speak truly and to be a person of the highest integrity, and compassion.
Thank you for your friendship and for your insights to life nad truth.
Wow. That is very kind of you.
Oh tut tut tut
just an unadorned statement of the unvarnished truth.........
or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.
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