doing and praying

Wednesday July 29th, Ephesians 3: 14-19 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. Jesus summed up all the law and prophets as follows; love God, love others. In loving God, we are strengthened from within by the Holy Spirit, in loving others, that strength is nurtured. To love God as our personal Lord and Savior is to choose to be an empty vessel, the kind Jesus pointed to and noted the shinny outside and the mold on the inside. To work for the betterment of others in the world, thought noble, leads more often to agendas and egos and only activism which without the God connection can easily be seduced into pressure tactics and manipulation, of which we already have too much. When we follow Jesus’ command to love God and love others, in word and deed, we find that the doing informs the reflection which informs the doing, round and round, ever closer to God’s calling. To do one without the other is to kill both.