Yeah, and I feel for them. I don't know their story obviously, but at the same time it's like you gotta keep going forward in life. Giving them money isn't necessarily helping them. The church grounds have a zero begging rule, so there is no begging there. I am positive it is there for good reason.
This is something I want to work on in myself. But it is so hard because it's like you're making yourself vulnerable.
We all like certainty and are consequently tempted to wrest control. But, we have no certainty. We must trust in Christ. If we had certainty, trust (and Faith) would be redundant. Likewise, if we had not been given freedom, sanctity would be redundant. Nor would we be made in the image of God.
Beautifully said! I think what I sometimes forget is that Christianity is ultimately about freedom, not simply following rules. God loves me enough to give me the freedom to choose. He guides me and gives me enough of His grace each day. He never abandons me but He does not force me to love. As I’ve been discovering, understanding that truth is one thing but actually living it, especially when a suffering comes along is quite another. I think its why in suffering and chaos I have opportunity to choose to surrender my will and its where faith really grows. Peace.
We are told that the Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom. I’m the first to fall foul of forgetting that word beginning and I’m still stuck at the ‘fear’ part. It’s wise to try and do good through fear, but I envy those who have achieved the further wisdom to do it joyfully and voluntarily.
I’m reading the Project Gutenberg (good quality) version, right now. It’s very easy to read and it’s revelatory of what’s going on in the world right now and how it’s co-ordinated. And I’m only at page 77, yet (but flying through it). I highly recommend it.
