Thursday, August 25, 2016
Jude, Chapter 1, Verse 12
These are
blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds
blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.
Jude is talking about people
who only come to church for the food and drink or for social interaction. God
will not be mocked. Maintain your life with God first then glory in Him with
others. Remember God is your true spouse via the Holy Spirit. Love the Lord by
spending time alone with Him. Plan to make use of the US National Park Service and get out
there where He can speak to you in that still small voice.
Max Oliva, in “The
Masculine Spirit”[1] recommends
a four step process to the art of reflecting.
1.
Get to a special place of quiet for you where you are
able to slow down as Christ stated, “Let us go off by ourselves to some place
where we will be alone and you can rest awhile.” (Mark 6:31)
2.
Promote self-searching and look for deeper meanings.
Look where you are vulnerable; surrender to Him. It requires faith to find Him.
3.
Are you afraid?
Stay with the experience; be it painful or pleasant in order to discover its
deeper meaning. You must pass through
fear to find your true self. You must acquaint yourself with your dark
side, your faults and vices. Hear the words of T.S. Eliot:
Old men ought to be explorers, Here and there does not
matter, we must be still and still moving, into another intensity, For a further
union, a deeper communion, Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The
wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters, Of the petral and the porpoise. In my
end is my beginning.
4.
Sharing is the last step, not the first. After you met
Him share Him, with someone you trust that will take in your feelings and
thoughts.
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