1 Wednesday Lent 2011
The Sign of Jonah.
In today’s Gospel, Luke 11:29-32, Jesus says: As Jonah became a sign to the men of Nin'eveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation. We are the men of Nin’eveh and Jesus is our Jonah. Jesus came to set us free from Pslavery to sin and hurtful desires.
Through the gift of the Holy Spirit he pours his love into our hearts that we may understand his will for our lives and walk in his way of holiness. God searches our hearts, not to condemn us, but to show us where we need his saving grace and help. God will transform us if we listen to his word and allow his Holy Spirit to work in our lives. May the Lord renew our minds and increase our thirst for his wisdom.
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The Sign of Jonah:
Using a synthesis of scriptural material drawn from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the world's great poetry, as in the beginning, it describes and teaches a single moral Law, a single moral principle, a single test of faith, and delivers on the Promise of its own proof; one in which the reality and will of God responds directly to an act of perfect faith with a demonstration of his omnipotence, an individual intervention into the natural world, 'raising' up the man, correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries. Intended to be understood metaphorically, where 'death' and darkness are ignorance and 'Life' and light are knowledge, this personal experience of transcendent power and moral purpose is our 'Resurrection' , the Sign of Jonah and justification for faith; the confirmation of a covenant between man and God. By this act of 'creation', on a new, perfectly objective foundation of moral principle, conduct and virtue, true morality and the good 'Life' begins.
http://soulgineering.com/2011/05/22/the-final-freedoms/
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