Greg, that sounded wonderful. (Are you SURE
you’re a lawyer??? J ) I think “living
lives radiated by love and wisdom” also includes not taking offense
easily against those who meant none. Not losing our tempers when we aren’t
always agreed with. Not blaming others when we do. Izzy From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory A. Hession J.D. One of the most consistently frustrating
things about Christians is that we seem far more keen on making sure everyone
around us is properly beat over the head with the truth, often with bile and
anger, than in living out the life exemplified by Christ, with mercy and
love. Look at the beatitudes. Truth is important, but it comes to
people who have ears to hear. Our job is less to demand that they
see the truth, than to LIVE the truth. The great saints down through
history saw this as job one - becoming like Christ inside, so that their lives
radiated his love and wisdom. James was very clear that wisdom is
linked to love and holiness: "Who is wise and understanding among
you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that
comes from wisdom.. . . " The entire book of Jamesis a rebuke to
those who think KNOWING the truth is more important than DOING the truth.
And the second course of the meal is Phillipians, where radiating the love
which only comes from devotion to Christ is preeminent, not how well we have
become little truth Nazis. Then, the third course is I John, where the
topic is brought to a supreme and sublime offering unequaled in any book ever
written, in my opinion. When we stand in front of the dread
judgment seat, the test is not how well we shoved every abstruse point of
theology down the throats of the ignorant, but how we lived the great truths we
already know, and taught the others with mercy and peace, so as to edify the
listener, not stir up emnity. Gregory A. Hession J.D. |
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