Good morning…
The drunk, the hunk, the chunk, and the monk, we are all in the process of being converted by God, from selfishness to servanthood, from dogmatic answers to life-giving questions, from “Why me?” to “Here I am, Lord, send me.” True conversion involves a change of attitude, emotion, and viewpoint from one of disbelief, indifference, and antagonism to one of faith, acceptance, and transformation. The old dies, the new blossoms.
“The converted person does not say that nothing matters anymore, but that everything that is happens in God and that he is the dwelling place where we come to know the true order of things,” says Henri Nouwen. “Instead of saying: ‘Nothing matters anymore, since I know that God exists,’ the converted person says: ‘All is now clothed in divine light and, therefore, nothing can be unimportant.’”
Each word shared. Each glance exchanged. Each prayer lifted. All is clothed in divine light and nothing is unimportant. Each person. Each life phase. Each moment of each day. All is clothed in divine light and nothing is unimportant. Each act. Each thought. Each choice made with God. All is clothed in divine light and nothing is unimportant.
So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom! (Romans 6:15-18, MSG).
As verse 18 is stated in the VOICE translation: The beauty of your new situation is this: now that you are free from sin, you are free to serve a different master, God’s redeeming justice.
…Sue…
