The Examined Life
"Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you." Matthew 7:7
Lent is the time to examine our lives. We are invited to look at our assumptions, values and behaviors. An unexamined life is a life that avoids questions. Our questions lead us to other and more complex questions where we find a deeper faith that is richer, more rewarding, and more interesting. Living the questions of life can be an exercise of faith. This shifts our focus from looking for an answer to our problem to being open-ended and dependent on God to show us an answer in his timing. To live the questions requires faith and trust in God.
Jesus encourages us to live the examined life of faith for the sake of the kingdom of God. Through a faith that seeks understanding, we are invited to trust God in the fog of the unknown. Living in the fog requires that we become more aware of God's gracious presence in uncertainty and his promise that he will always be with us.
Quincy D. Brown
Prayer: Dear God, please help me to keep asking questions, knowing that you will give to me the answers I seek. Amen.
1 comment:
Lent is about being examined and examining. I find myself seeing thins in me I didn;t see before. Good and bad things. This is a tough time of the year but a rich time also.
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