Today’s Readings: Psalm 88; Genesis 41:46-57; Luke 4:38-44; Acts 18:1-11; Psalm 30
It’s very easy these days to treat our faith primarily on an allegorical level and keep it purely in the abstract. We can talk for hours about God in relationship to concepts like love, mercy, and justice; but when it comes to actually bringing God into the concrete levels of reality, we sometimes struggle. Today’s reading from Luke reminds me that for early believers their faith didn’t start at the abstract level; their faith started at a very concrete level. In the hours following Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother-in-law, for instance, we are told, “When the sun went down, everyone who had anyone sick with some ailment or other brought them to him. One by one he placed his hands on them and healed them” (Luke 4:41 – The Message). Perhaps there is an area of your life where it’s time for your faith to move from the abstract to the contract – a place where you are ready for healing and transformation. If that’s the case, don’t feel like you have to wait for the proverbial sun to go down – go now. Til next time…
It’s very easy these days to treat our faith primarily on an allegorical level and keep it purely in the abstract. We can talk for hours about God in relationship to concepts like love, mercy, and justice; but when it comes to actually bringing God into the concrete levels of reality, we sometimes struggle. Today’s reading from Luke reminds me that for early believers their faith didn’t start at the abstract level; their faith started at a very concrete level. In the hours following Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother-in-law, for instance, we are told, “When the sun went down, everyone who had anyone sick with some ailment or other brought them to him. One by one he placed his hands on them and healed them” (Luke 4:41 – The Message). Perhaps there is an area of your life where it’s time for your faith to move from the abstract to the contract – a place where you are ready for healing and transformation. If that’s the case, don’t feel like you have to wait for the proverbial sun to go down – go now. Til next time…
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