Sewlyn spends one more day on his third aspect of our spiritual journey – interpersonal relationships.
His introductory remarks, I think, Â contain the essential element of his discussion on this aspect: “Relationships … are more easily talked about than entered into. In my early years on the Christian pathway I regarded other people as the cause [...]
I don’t think we know enough about the Trinity to make the sort of observations which we read about today.
However, the quotation from D. Broughton Knox re the phrase ‘relationship is of the essence of reality’ does confront the popular view that ‘truth is of the essence of reality’.
In an abstract, scientific form – [...]
I liked today’s study but the one question I have, is – why do we need so many ’sandpaper people’? Do we have so many rough edges that we require a lot of sanding to smooth us into usable people? I suppose, based on my own experience, that the answer to the last question is, [...]
In a sense, I don’t agree with one possible implication of what Selwyn has written today. It could be taken from his words that because God is ‘intangible and invisible’ we cannot relate to Him in the same way that we can relate with ‘tangible and visible’ physical beings. [Intangible: 1, incapable of being perceived by the sense [...]
The main verse for reading and meditation is worth thinking about, (1 Thessalonians 3:12, NIV): “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other … ” For me, it again shows that it by God’s help that we are able to love the ‘difficult’ people in our lives. It is not something we can [...]
I liked the following in today’s study: ” …I had a great surprise when I discovered that by receiving Jesus into my life I inherited His family also, and that I was to relate to the members of His family in he same way that I was to relate to Him. The difficulty was that [...]
Living in the light of eternity
Selwyn now looks at ‘the fourth aspect of the spiritual journey – learning to live life in the light of eternity.’
I think the following captures the theme well: “Our courage for the journey so often falters because we have lost our hope of heaven – our journey’s destination. Take away the hope of arrival in [...]
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