Dear friends, It was yesterday that Priya put up an invitation to have sharings and discussions on it.Since the discussion will only last 15 days,I think we Joynetters have to speed up a little.Like Mathew said,it's a good opportunity for us to learn and grow together.Let's not waste this chance. Jesus' zeal for His Father's house made Him clean it up with a WHIP.Where did the zeal come from? In St.John's gospel,Jesus explains His relationship with the Father.They are so close that He says they are one. I once read somewhere about fearing God. One day,the writer's car had a break down.It took some time for him to repair it.While he was repairing the car,fear of his wife made him do it faster.It was not that his wife would beat him up or anything.She would be waiting for him and would be worried about him.He always wanted to please his wife and did not want her to be sad.Fear of making his wife sad was what made him speed up. Similarly,when God wants us to fear him,he does not want us to tremble before him as before a lion or any other wild beast.It is this fear borne out of love that He expects from us. Zeal for God comes from this love for God.We may have experienced times when we were zealous and times when we were not.That is not true zeal.It cannot be that we love God at one time and at another time,we don't.That is not true love. In fact,we can find out how much zeal we have not by what we do for God but by how much time we spend with Him. Love & prayers, Annie Berly/Cochin/India
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