Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I am reflecting on the events on the day so many years ago that we celebrate at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit empowered the disciples to begin the church. I am praying for a renewal of that same fire to engulf our Nation. I fear that the idea of human beings created and beloved by God has given way to a crude view that we are merely cogs in a vast machine. The overriding philosophy of America has become that we are not made for eternity but are useful only until broken. We are desperate to maintain youth and seek an immortality of flesh instead of spirit. This superficial understanding of life is shallow water which cannot sustain the health and well-being of a Nation for long. This reduces people to far less than God intended them to be; discounting compassion, morality, integrity, creativity, imagination, and lovingkindness for the sake of productivity and marketability. However, it is the Spirit which helps us to understand that for which God created us -- what historian Russell Kirk called “the ethical understanding and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded.” I pray that God's Holy Spirit will enlighten and guide us to all truth so that we may again understand the worth of every person and the everlasting love of God. Selah
In Christ,
Steve
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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