"By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance;he went out, not knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God. " Hebrews 11:
"Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." Luke 12:
OK so the Father is pleased to give us the Kingdom. A gift . . . . to be seen and experienced by selling belongings, going out and looking forward to coming upon a city whose architect and maker is God. Very cool.
By Thomas Merton:
"The Gospel is handed down from generation to generation but it must reach each one of us brand new, or not at all. If it is merely “tradition” and not news, it has not been preached or not heard - it is not Gospel…. If there is no risk in revelation, if there is no fear in it, if there is no challenge in it, if it is not a word which creates whole new worlds, and new beings, if it does not call into existence a new creature, our new self, then religion is dead and God is dead." Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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