April 13, 2021
Dave Zahl’s excellent sermon from this past Sunday reminded us that we are all divided and multiple selves. One part of us is ready to carpe diem, while the other part is bored and tired of life and on some days just ready for the whole shooting match to be over.
The ancient Greek aphorism, “know thyself”, can be helpful on some days and a red herring on others, given the shifting sand of human personality. That’s why I find this word from St. John incredibly comforting. “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2)
For now, it is enough to know that you are God’s child. And to know that there will come a day when your multiple and divided selves will become one, kneeling before your Savior.
“O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light riseth up in the darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what thou wouldest have us to do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices, and that in thy light we may see light, and in thy straight path may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (For Guidance – BCP p. 832)
