Life lessons learned by experience.... Wisdom gained by new ideas and reflection...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Lenord Griffith in his book titled “God’s time and ours” states that “Satan Temps us at the point of our physical needs. Not that we might gratify them to excess, but that we may think of nothing else and gratify them at the expense of our usefulness in this world. Satan temps us at the point of our ambitions. Not that we might engage in positive evil, but simply except the fact of evil, learn to live with it, come to terms with it and maintain a discrete silence in the presence of it. Satan temps us at the point of our religion. Not that we might disbelieve in God, but that we might demand certainty, that kind of certainty that leaves nothing to faith, nothing to God Himself. These are the moral struggles that have reality for people such as we are. The subtle temptations to renounce our duty in favor of what is attractive, that insidious allurement to a kind of a half goodness which is the essence of everything bad. And which is more productive of suffering and hatred, war and misery in this world than all the desires of wicked and greedy people combined”. What challenging statement. Lord, help me to detest mediocrity and luke warmness as much as you and return to my radical roots as a child of God in "The Way", roots that You established!
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