Friday
December 2nd
Jesus
said, "I am the way the
truth and the life"
John
chapter 14:6
"Sorrow abides for
a season but joy cometh
in the morning". Let
none of these who call me
Lord and Master discount
the cost of salvation, or
the pain of the fulfilled
life. No growth in the natural
or supernatural life was
ever achieved with out discomfort
and sadness that leaving
the old and embracing the
new which lively growth
entails. But it is an unease
of challenge and development,
essential for the maturity
of the whole person. But
apart from this natural
growth and beyond it is
the pain and cost of redemption,
conceived by our love before
the beginning of the time,
suffered in us by the experience
of the children of the Father
in all times and races and
situations, lived out in
the brief life span of my
incarnate humanity, and
suffered on the cross of
pain and calumny. Only those
of the Father's children
who muse and meditate on
the truth revealed in this
manifestation, the way offered
in its revelation, can take
hold of the life which is
the reward as well and the
means to eternal life for
themselves and for those
whom they are given to serve.
Many dimly perceive the
way amongst the peoples
who have not received the
fullness of this revelation,
and their faithfulness to
that which they dimly perceive
is their salvation in and
through my saving love.
As the Father rejoices in
and through them. I look
in sadness at the children
of the Father who call me
Lord and Master yet do not
show faithfulness in pursuing
the truth set for them in
depth. Commit yourself to
it.