"This is the sum or substance of our religion; to wit, to feel and discern the two seeds:...and to feel the judgments of God administered to the one of these, till it be brought into bondage and death; and the other raised up in the love and mercy of the Lord to live in us, and our souls gathered into it, to live to God in it." --Isaac Penington, The Sum or Substance of Our Religion Who Are Called Quakers, Works, Volume II p. 441
Sunday, June 22, 2008
on the law...
I was cleaning out the garage yesterday and realized that The Law/the law alone cannot save me, even if I keep it with complete faithfulness. But it can save others from me.
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What does cleaning out the garage have to do with it?
Cleaning out the garage didn't seem to have anything to do with it, just context.
But as I thought about it I wondered whether it might not have some importance. After all, it's a great metaphor and I always find things in doing it that I had either forgotten or never seen before. (I have children, you know). It's a contemplative activity, if not a quotidian spiritual discipline.
Finally, though, I was led to wonder whether I was just showing off, showing what a good householder I am because I cleaned out my garage.
Sometimes I think that I think too much. Other times I am convinced of it.
2 comments:
What does cleaning out the garage have to do with it?
OK, too good not to bite.
Cleaning out the garage didn't seem to have anything to do with it, just context.
But as I thought about it I wondered whether it might not have some importance. After all, it's a great metaphor and I always find things in doing it that I had either forgotten or never seen before. (I have children, you know). It's a contemplative activity, if not a quotidian spiritual discipline.
Finally, though, I was led to wonder whether I was just showing off, showing what a good householder I am because I cleaned out my garage.
Sometimes I think that I think too much. Other times I am convinced of it.
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