FROM TODAYS DAILY REFLECTION of The High Calling: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. - Ephesians 5:8-10 We will live as children of light by finding out what pleases the Lord. Our actions and thoughts are inseparable. We need to think rightly in order to act rightly. We need to use our heads. QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER REFLECTION: When, recently, have you used your head to figure out what is pleasing to the Lord? What helps you to think clearly and deeply about faith and action? How can you figure out what is pleasing to the Lord? PRAYER: Gracious God, thank you for giving me the power of thought, the ability to reason, to imagine, and to render judgment. Thank you for all the ways you have helped me to learn how to think. Thank you for my parents, my teachers, my pastors, my counselors, and my friends. Thank you for writers who have instructed me and artists who have stretched me. Thank you for the communities of thought in which I have lived. Thank you for your Spirit, who teaches and guides me. Help me, Lord, to be faithful in using my head for your purposes. May I come to know you more truly so that I might follow you more nearly. May I use all the faculties you have given me to determine what pleases you. And then, Lord, may I do it. Amen.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0000
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