What a beautiful full Moon it was tonight.
"Greatest of all her burdens was the burden of herself. Though she was learned...she knew her faults and dangers and that, still young and of passionate heart, she could be betrayed by her own desires. Well she knew that she was not all of a piece, one woman molded whole. A score of various women hid within her frame, and not all were strong and calm. She had her softness, her fears, her longing..."This is a quote from a book that Kate is reading called, Imperial Woman. I shudder when I think of my own ability and indeed my own proclivity to sin as a man. Tis also very scary to think that the ones we love have those same abilities, those same proclivities. Dostoyevsky is correct: mankind suffers in sin-- not just me, not just men, not just women...we suffer in sin.
Is this not why love must be founded upon faith in Christ? And is this not a large portion why marriage is chosen as the metaphor-- indeed the type-- for our union with Christ? Just as our love for another is founded on faith that the other will be faithful and just, so is it that we trust the Christ, and that He is the fulfillment of Jehovah's promise from ages past. It is faith, it is trust through which salvation comes; so too in love. Again I ask, is true love possible where trust in Christ is absent? Indeed not. For if we put faith in ourselves as a primary we are bound to fall.
May God Almighty see to it that His blessings flow, that our paths are straight, and that we remain good and faithful servants. For if we remain, we know with even more assurance that He remaineth.
Posted by at October 31, 2001 10:17 PM