Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Dirck van Baburen: Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet
Our Experience of Christ – Part II
Are you so stupid? After beginning with the spirit are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so many things in vain? . . . Realize then that it is those who have faith who are children of God.
Today’s lesson is a difficult one. It asks us to exercise our faith. It asks us to acknowledge and remember all of the times that we have been rescued. It asks that we tell the story of our redemption. It asks that we act in this belief that God is God, that God created us, that God loves us, and that God longs to hold us close.
O you stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you?
Who has talked us out of believing our own story? Who has convinced us that Christ does not exist? Who has persuaded us that a false story is better than the vibrant experience of Christ that we have lived?
We so frequently doubt and when we do there is only one remedy. We must cast back through our lives to remember the many small and great ways that we have been rescued, the small and great ways that we have been loved. When we do this . . . we will find it easier and more natural to act in faith as Paul asks us to do. We will find that no one and no thing will ever bewitch us. No one and no thing will ever lure us away from Christ.
From the MAGNIFICAT Morning Prayer:
You led your people through the sea dry-shod: let us put our trust in you as you lead us through this day’s challenges. We put our trust in you!
You fed them in the desert: let us hear your word of life amid the noise of our bust lives today. We put our trust in you!
You gave them water from the rock: let us drink from the fountain of life and not from bitter and polluted waters. We put our trust in you!
Cameron, Peter John. “Prayer for the Morning.” MAGNIFICAT. 23.4 (2010). Print.
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