doing what we want or doing what we need to do for ourselves
from Eugene Peterson's book Working the Angles
"We not only have bodies, we are bodies, so none of us is capable of untainted objectivity regarding our own bodies. All of us...want coddling, not healing. We prefer comfort to wholeness. And we can deceive ourselves about ourselves endlessly."
Labels: eugene peterson, mission
posted by Hobart @ 12/12/2008 04:01:00 PM
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4 Comments:
interpretation please?
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We prefer to be taken care of by others than to offer our life to God to be healed/made whole. We prefer safety and feeling good than being open to God's spirit with our lives. The world has created the illusion that we can find ultimate safety if we find the right people and the right setting for our lives. Jesus said over and over again that to follow up (or take up our cross-which is the symbol of the threat of death) would not be easy. Yet it is holy. The benediction we use at the end of worship every Sunday says "May the peace of God, which is beyond our understanding, keep our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus who is Lord of all." God's peace/comfort comes in ways, in times and in places which are beyond our understanding. Yet, they come! That is the reality of faith in God.
The 2nd comment deleted above was my own which I deleted to add more to which is the 3rd note.
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