Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A Holy Calling

Morning: Psalm 78:1-39; Isaiah 59:1-15a; 2 Timothy 1:1-14
Evening: Psalm 78:40-72; Mark 9:42-50
Jesus’ radical ‘remedies’ for wrongdoing – cutting away the offending hand, foot or eye!! – are shockingly unappealing and surely to be taken metaphorically. But Jesus does call us to take dramatic action to address our ‘stumbling’.  His is a ‘holy calling’, ‘not (to) a spirit of cowardice, but of power, love and self-discipline.’ God entrusts us all with good treasure, and the Spirit wants to help us guard it.  But we must remove the barriers we ourselves create that keep us from seeing and hearing God.

Graham
Graham Bland
Rector
St. George’s Anglican Church

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