Windows On The Soul

Two common traps Christians fall into are either thinking that God is easily pleased, or that God is so Holy that He can never be satisfied. Like most deep spiritual concepts, the truth is that God is BOTH easily pleased AND hard to satisfy. Jesus said both " My yoke is easy, my burden is light " ( Mt.11:30 ) and " It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle then to enter the Kingdom of God " ( Mt.19:24 ). The key is that Christianity is not simply a state, a label or a destination (and categorising people as simply as either "Christian" or "non-Christian" exacerbates this fallacy). Early Christians were known as " Followers of The Way ". " Disciples " are students enrolled in a period of learning. Whether "Taking up our cross" ( Mt.16:24 ) or putting on "His yoke", we are called to follow Him on a "journey", a journey of growth - the Christian life. Yes, signing up is easy...

" Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone " - this is the philosophy of the world - of "fair weather friends"! But Christians are called to march to the beat of a different drum. We are called to bear one-another's burdens for this is the "law of Christ". This is true religion. We even have Jesus' verbatim statement - " This is my command, that you love one-another ". But let's look at this from the side of the burdened - don't we all have our various burdens? Don't we pray to God for strength, healing, courage, support, encouragement, faith etc. Yet our Lord has commanded that these are the very things that we are to share with each other. Could I be so bold as to suggest that the answers to many of our prayers will/should come through the love of a fellow believer? Have you been the answer to some-ones prayers this week? " Lord, open my ears to hear your call, and my eyes to see you beckoning. Help me...