"When you hear "Repent for your past", realize it's a great religious distraction from waking up. Wake up! That's what repent means. Not "weep for your sins." Wake up! Stop all the crying. Understand! Wake up!" - Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Awaken
I read this tonight and found it quite thought-provoking.
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I get it! God help us move away from distractions and get to the heart of the message!
Great post Beth! It definitely gave me something to think about...
This relates to what our small group discussed last night...James 4:8-10 was a passage we focused on, particularly "Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom." That was a tough passage for us, especially in light of verses like "rejoice always." My take was that this verse is calling us to grieve our sins (since v.8 is about purifying our hearts and cleaning our hands). If my reading is correct (which is suspect), then James is telling us to grieve and weep for our sins. Guess that's no help, huh?:/
oops...I had more...the James passage ends on a more positive note, because verse 10 says, "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up." And he will lift you up...if we grieve ours sins in humility before God, he will lift us up; we're not to stay in that misery. I like that:)
I love Anthony DeMello's works.
His little book A Way To Love is one of my daily reads for years now.
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