“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
PSALM 119:49-104
The Psalm praises God's word and seeks it only for life and instruction...
89Your word, Lord, is eternal;
it stands firm in the heavens.
90Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
you established the earth, and it endures.
91Your laws endure to this day,
for all things serve you.
92If your law had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
1 CORINTHIANS 4
Paul warns the church at Corinth to not become prideful and to remember the plight of the apostles...
11To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.
This passage in 1 Corinthians busts my chops. It calls me to remember that true blessings are not found in being honored. Paul is reminding the church that God's most faithful are considered "garbage" by the world.JOURNAL
I think about the privilege with which I live in this country and it feels as if this letter is written directly to me. I need to never forget that while the pleasures and luxuries of my life are blessings, they can never compare to the love of God. All of them are as "filthy rags" before the Cross. It is in this mindset that I also see my son's post on instagram and I am overwhelmed in God's grace and love...
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