Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, help us to live our lives as free
men, not as slaves to our own whims and moods and preferences. Help us to realize that it is only in you
that we find our true meaning and our true purpose and a true sense of
freedom. Help us to fully become all
that you created us to be. Amen.
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:16
Journal: Who or what determines how you spend your
days? What or whose rhythm do you
operate by?
Reflection:
A wise man once said, "Only he who obeys a
rhythm superior to his own in free."
I think he said this because he realized that we were all created to
dance to a certain rhythm, a rhythm much larger than our own. And when we don’t move to the rhythm of the
One who made us, the One who dreamt us into being, we become something other than
who and what we were intended to be. Our
lives lack both the meaning and the purpose that they were designed to
carry. Therefore, the way we live our
lives, and the way we go about filling our days, must be determined by
something, or Someone, larger than our own tastes and preferences. Because if they are not, we are at the whim
of mood and circumstance and demand. We
are slaves to fear and anxiety and insecurity.
Or, in the words of Thomas Merton, we are slaves to the external self. And ultimately freedom is not about doing
whatever we want to do, but about being who and what we were made to be.
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O Lord, teach us to number our days aright
that we might gain a heart of wisdom.
Amen. (Psalm 90:12)
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