Have you heard that when you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power? You must be as happy as you want to be. It’s your responsibility to declare, “I am not going to live sour, defeated, depressed. I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to enjoy this day.” That’s it!!!
Thomas Merton said; ” in the old days, on Easter night, the Russian peasants used to carry the blessed fire home from church. The light would scatter and travel in all directions through the darkness, and the desolation of the night would be pierced and dispelled as lamps came on in the windows of the farmhouses, one by one. Even so, the glory of God sleeps everywhere, ready to blaze out unexpectedly in created things. Even so, his peace and…
Dorothy Sayers asserted that, ” Christ showed no proper deference for wealth or social position; when confronted with neat dialectical traps, he displayed a paradoxical humor that affronted serious-minded people, and he retorted by asking disagreeably searching questions that could not be answered by rule of thumb. He was emphatically not a dull man in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.”
Yes, Dorothy Sayers said, “…he went to parties in disreputable company and was looked upon as a “gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners”; he assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the Temple; he drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; he cured diseases by any means that came handy, with a shocking casualness in the matter of other people’s pigs and property;”
Dorothy Sayers said; “We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him “meek and mild,” and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies. To those who knew him, however, he in no way suggested a milk-and-water person; they objected to him as a dangerous firebrand. True, he was tender to the unfortunate, patient with honest inquirers, and humble before heaven; but he insulted respectable clergymen by calling them…
Don’t give away your power! When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your control. Also, you must not let conditions disclose to you what your identity is! Don’t allow your circumstances to control you. In other words, don’t let negative contemplations persuade you that you’ve seen your most excellent days? You need to call yourself favoured, prosperous, sound, pardoned, particular, significant, offspring of the Most High God. Remain in the power of the Almighty. That’s it!!!
Saint Augustine said; “…But where will you climb if you are already on a pinnacle and have set your mouth against the heavens? First come down, that you may climb up to God. For you have fallen by trying to climb against him. Tell this to the souls you love that they may weep in the valley of tears, and so bring them along with you to God, because it is by his spirit that you speak to them, if,…
Saint Augustine said; “Our very Life came down to earth and bore our death, and slew it with the very abundance of his own life…In this world he was, and into this world, he came, to save sinners. To him, my soul confesses, and he heals it because it had sinned against him. O sons of men, how long will you be so slow of heart? Even now, after Life itself has come down to you, will you not ascend…
If we give ourselves over in faith to God and Jesus, we will be cleansed. In His goodbye words, Jesus says, “I am the true vine; you are the branches.” He says that if we are to bear fruit, we must be purified, and the blade of the nursery worker should cut into our hearts. As supporters of Jesus, we need this purging, this pruning, this sharpness in our hearts and our lives.
No cultural instruction, no artistry, no transformative advancement encourages us beyond our sins. We should get help starting from the earliest stage. At that point, the precarious dividers of our security are broken to bits, and we are compelled to get modest, weak, and to plead. Subsequently, we are driven increasingly more to give up and surrender all that we have, give up and surrender those things which we once in the past used to secure and guard and hold…