Come to a land I will show you...
The spiritual life is often described as a journey. Each day, each new circumstance is the source of new and deeper revelation. In the spiritual life, we "progress" from a place of "already knowing" to a sense of childlike wonder and awe, a willingness to be taught anew each day and an expectation of continual discovery.
At the end of his life, Thomas Aquinas, the great intellect and author of the Summa Theologica, said, "Everything I have written is as straw," compared to the revelation he received before his death.
Like Thomas, we must be willing to lay down what we knew before in the light of new realities. Jesus told Mary Magdalene, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet gone to the Father." We cannot "cling to" the revelation of yesterday, because today He is once again about to take us further on our journey---to a place we could not have reached yesterday, until we had come to the place where we stand today.
Faith is never set in stone; it is a living, loving relationship that is ever new.
No comments:
Post a Comment