I’ve been receiving emails from the Christian Vision Project, and I read this article some time ago. I’ve been interested in the desert fathers for a long time…I forget how I even came across this page, but I bookmarked it and have never lost it. I think it had something to do with a search on monastic rules of conduct. Regardless, It’s been a great source of inspiration to me. I really do seek wisdom in conduct and in life, because of its value. This is something I believe strongly. But to seek it without guidance, without the conduct of grace and for its own sake is detrimental to the faith that leads to the living of a different life. The rich blessing of Christ is that we are given guidance, we are given the Counsellor and the Helper, and privileged access to the Father as the Son’s chosen recipients of grace. This is not favour that we are worthy of, nor can we achieve it on our own, but by love we have been given it, and in love we need to exercise it.
And yet our love is clearly to small, if we find it hard to love people in all circumstances. That, dear readers, is why it is by Christ’s love that we are enabled to show love, and by Christ’s love that we can stand.
Blessings;
Christ-bearer.
