The news of your struggle beckoned me
And I came without hesitation
My hands are empty
But my heart is full
I possess no antidote for that which ails you
But I offer my shoulder for you to lean upon
I have come to hold your trembling hands
And to help raise a cup to your parched lips
I have come to change the dressing on your wound
And to fight against infection
I will offer no explanation
For things I could not possibly know
I will make no bold predictions of miraculous deliverance
Lest the Lord Himself speak them over you
I have come with an economy of words
And an abundance of tears
With attentive ears
And ceaseless prayers
I don’t know where this road will take us
But I am resolved that you not travel it alone
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Thought for the Day – Dis-Infection
Posted in Commentaries, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged close-knit, discord, distancing, infection, mask-wearing, transformation on February 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
For the last couple of years we’ve repeatedly heard that the best way to avoid the spread of infection is to minimize the time spent around other people, and to maintain a safe distance and/or wear a face covering when you have to interact personally. While the effectiveness of these actions with regard to the spread of COVID is debatable, it is hard to deny their effectiveness within the standard western religious paradigm.
Jesus said that the world would be able to distinguish His followers by the way they love each other, but it’s doubtful that anyone would describe “Christians” in the west as a close-knit group. Indeed, we are more famous for the contentious division that has resulted in thousands of different denominations, and other disenfranchised ministries. Even amongst these independent tribes/sects, there seems to be precious little transparency, trust, or genuine fellowship (i.e. mask-wearing). This obvious discord could rightfully be deemed “Religious Distancing”.
As individuals we need to examine our own relationship with the Lord, and wonder at the degree to which our hearts have truly succumbed to His. God means to be the end that we are pursuing, not the means by which we pursue some other end. The truth is that you cannot walk closely with Him, and not be infected with His compassion for the lost, or His burning desire to see the will of the Father done “on earth as it is in heaven”. You cannot spend time in His presence, or hear His voice without being changed in some way. But just as Paul told the Corinthians (2Cor. 3:18), we must behold the Lord with “unveiled” faces in order to experience this kind of transformation.
It is unlikely that a lost world will be infected with the love of God, by a people who seem to be immune to it themselves (1John 3:15-17).
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