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“To you whom I love I say, let us go on loving one another, for love comes from God. Every man who truly loves is God’s son and has some knowledge of him. But the man who does not love cannot know him at all, for God is love. To us, the greatest demonstration of God’s love for us has been his sending his only Son into the world to give us life through him. We see real love, not in the fact that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to make personal atonement for our sins. If God loved us as much as that, surely we, in our turn, should love each other!” 1 John 4:7-11, Phillips * * * * “The primacy of love in the spiritual life is not an arbitrary, imposed condition; it is inherent. If you have the Spirit, you have love, and if you do not have love, you do not have the Spirit.” E. Stanley Jones
Growing Spiritually
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54.21 We labor and strive because of our hope; not toward it. Our living Hope is already beside us; with us; within us.
54.22 The Kingdom knows no hierarchy, no classes, no ages, no statures; only abiding in Jesus, union, unity, oneness. 54.23 Let your speech, life, love, faith, and purity be His, for His are what our Heavenly Father recognizes. 54.24 We end by absorbing what absorbs us. 54.25 The salvation of Jesus rides out upon my day today. 54.26 Give a great and growing attention to yourself, and you will quickly learn how fleeting are these particular diminishing returns. 54.27 Give only a sliver of the same, offering the rest to anyone/everyone: how great shall be your days! 54.28 Caring even a little leaves room for infinite growth. 54.29 (Not caring: a choice for death.) 54.30 Speak seldom of what you somewhat know. Speak never of what you know not. 54.31 Be reasonable. 54.32 Don’t be less fun than Jesus. “There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person. This is no fulfillment of our obligation, and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God. It is little wonder that we are no longer capable of the greatest service of listening that God has committed to us, that of hearing our brother's confession, if we refuse to give ear to our brother on lesser subjects. Secular education today is aware that often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously, and upon this insight it has constructed its own soul therapy, which has attracted great numbers of people... But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together “Abandonment to God is the fruitful way to experience good under God. It means relinquishing ‘our way.’ It means not being angry or resentful when things do not go our way. It means that in God’s hands we are content for him to take charge of outcomes. And in that posture we make way for him to occupy our lives with us, and achieve what is best for us and for others far beyond anything we can even imagine.” Dallas Willard from the collection, Renewing the Christian Mind * * * Now to him who by His power within us is able to do far more than we ever dare to ask or imagine—to Him be glory in the Church through Jesus Christ for ever and ever, Amen! (Ephesians 3:20-21, Phillips)
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