Lent 2012 A Clean Heart, Create in Me C.S.Lewis
Sunday, March 12, 2012 1Corinthians 10:12
I cannot lead myself to holiness. Salt cannot make itself saltier. But the word holy means that which is set
apart. However maybe we should look at
it as those who have set everything apart.
The holy would be those people who have set aside striving, grasping and
droning. The holy would not be concerned
with the benchmarks of the world and that idea of success and failure. The holy would repeatedly give themselves
over to who and what God has created.
That is why I think it is C.S. calls it a “terrible thing.” In our society it is the height of success
to know who you are and to be independently able to sustain that person. How many movies have as their main plot point,
a journey of self-discovery? When a
person discovers themselves it is categorized as the happy ending. How can that discovery of who we are be the
ending? God created us in God’s own
image for a reason for a purpose. A call
to holiness is not the destruction of self but the true use of what it means to
be that creation of God. A clean heart
leads to holiness because we are able to throw away the clutter that this world
tells us we must hold onto. This holy
journey causes a deeper change that goes beyond who we are to who we are to
be. We are not just creatures of our
parents, creatures of an environment and culture, products of the chemistry of
DNA. When we choose to be part of this
holy priesthood of believers we experience an explosion of what it means to
truly be. It is more than the sum of my
parts. I cannot lead myself to holiness
and that is why I must listen to God over self and redirect my heart and life
each day.
Lord, constantly show me the way to you and
through you so I can always be, the me you created me to be. May I produce either grass or wheat, fig or
thistle however I was designed and turn
my head from any destination that would not lead me into Your truth. By your great Love, Amen.
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