Sunday, October 22nd
Isaiah 53:10-11. Hebrews 4:14-16. Mark 10:35-46

In the giving and receiving, receiving and the giving, is eternal life. From the First Cause of all being and becoming life has been given to universes and worlds by the Creator Lord and it has entered in that which He created. I am the life given, the word spoken and the way offered to the sons of men made in the Creator's image. And I became one with the sons of men in time that I might bring them to the eternal glory of Him from whom they came: such was the will and purpose of the Creator Lord from the beginning.

The cost of this tremendous operation is such that no human mind can ever know. But he may enter in the mystery of vicarious suffering through self-giving in love, and share the fellowship and pain and joy with the one and many.

Receive and give, give and receive. Identify in all things with the good purpose of the Father's perfect will. Shalom.