We continue with another section of Walter Wink’s “The Human Being.”
Rather then emptying ourselves into transcendence, then, we may now discover God at the core of our inmost beings, as the power of Being itself.
Whereas many theologians localized the power of spiritual healing in Jesus or God, we may now experience that same healing power working through us.
Whereas we once believed prophecy was dead in the modern world we now recognize God speaking an authentic word to us and through us today.
Whereas we once regarded the mystics as rare and solitary athletes of the Spirit, we may now acknowledge everyone’s capacity to become mystics.
Whereas we once waited for God in our depths to make peace through active nonviolence,
Instead of imagining God as the capstone on a pyramid of political, military, and economic Powers that maintain the status quo for the benefit of the few, we may now see God empowering the poor and the powerless to take history into their own hands in the struggle for justice.
This was one of those pieces I did not want to cut short because when I read it over…again, it kept opening up another window of insight about the God who is…now…with us and whose presence abides eternally in, with, and under our humanity. Therefore, let my words, today, be brief.
Connection: Stop. Look. Listen. This is how we teach children to approach a street they will be crossing so that it is done safely. Well, today within the depths of your humanity, stop, look, and listen to how God brings life to you and therefore to all of us.
O Lord, create in us that clean and new heart that is washed by your love and reborn by your power to bring life where life seems to be gone. Shape our loving and inspire our adventures in peacemaking. Amen.
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