Seeking Him
27th May 2008, 08:21 PM
"The message of the death and Resurrection of Christ is this:
With faith we can go repeatedly on in this life by using defeat and loss as an opportunity to challenge God's grace to help us survive.
In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestled with the angel of God in the darkness. Although wounded and limping, he received the blessing and went on his way. St. Paul's boast amid his suffering and disappointments expresses so well the mystery of the cross (2 Cor 12:10)
When we are knocked down by life,abandoned, weary of our own foolishness or even facing death, that is when we can pick up the cross, wave it at grief, sadness, or even death.
To boast in the cross, it seems to me , is an almost fierce gesture when we confront all that would defeat us and say "Look at the cross all of you, and know that I shall not be overcome, because the Lord of life is with me and in me, and He shall go with me even through the valley of the shadow of death."
With faith we can go repeatedly on in this life by using defeat and loss as an opportunity to challenge God's grace to help us survive.
In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestled with the angel of God in the darkness. Although wounded and limping, he received the blessing and went on his way. St. Paul's boast amid his suffering and disappointments expresses so well the mystery of the cross (2 Cor 12:10)
When we are knocked down by life,abandoned, weary of our own foolishness or even facing death, that is when we can pick up the cross, wave it at grief, sadness, or even death.
To boast in the cross, it seems to me , is an almost fierce gesture when we confront all that would defeat us and say "Look at the cross all of you, and know that I shall not be overcome, because the Lord of life is with me and in me, and He shall go with me even through the valley of the shadow of death."