“This,
my friend, is a secret of secrets. It will help you to reap where you
have not sown, and it will be a continual source of grace in your
souls. For everything that inwardly stirs in you, or outwardly
happens to you, becomes a real good to you if it finds or excites in
you this humble state of mind. For nothing is in vain, or without
profit to the humble soul. It stands always in a state of divine
growth; everything that falls upon it is like a dew of heaven to it.”
Andrew
Murry “Humility”
When our only goal is to “Love our Creator with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and our neighbour as ourselves,” then nothing that happens to us can do anything but strengthen the ability for love and peace and humility to develop. Having a love of our Creator as our goal releases or makes possible for God to bring about His only goal for us - to bring about a character like Jesus in us. Not just hardship, but especially hardship, suffering, loss, tragedy, pain etc. becomes the means by which we are grown into Christlikeness. “He was a man of sorrows, well acquainted with grief and suffering.” “Jesus learned obedience through what He suffered.”
Have
the greatest commandment as your main goal in life and you no longer
have to avoid tears. You no longer have to run from difficult
relationships. You no longer have to miss the learning that comes
only from situations that you used to spend your time squirming out
of.
When
you know that you are loved by God and your goal is to love Him in
return, (“We love Him because He first loved us,”) you’ll soon
find that Whatever is - Is ok.
Thesauros, Thesauros, what a poor copy&paste job.
ReplyDeleteThe name is Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917), not Murry. And your quoting of a member of "Het Réveil", an anti-rationalist revivalist sect, who initiated the rather fruitless "South African Revival of 1860" says more about you than it enlightens us.
"Not just hardship, but especially hardship, suffering, loss, tragedy, pain etc. becomes the means by which we are grown into Christlikeness"
Those who suffer are closer to the lord. The grand excuse of the guys in charge to NOT end suffering. A mourning mother who lost her child is easier to convert than a mother whose child was saved by a secular appendix removal. Well, of course.
Free people, well-fed, healthy and socially secure, tend to be rather critical towards those submission orders of Abrahamic faiths... makes sense.