The Door is Open.
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“The door is open.” This is the phrase that came to me after prayers and my kids’ lessons today. Before that, I had been sitting heavily in the awareness that “The door is closing.”
It’s the same truth from different angles. I see that the times are shifting and many are falling away from Christ. I feel the quickening of events and the labor pains of a world about to be shaken… sifted…
We are choosing our paths, our teachers, our gods… and it will be difficult to change direction once the storm intensifies.
The door is closing. But it is open.
I gave the kids an assignment today. Read the first Mass reading (Colossians 3:12-17) and also Ephesians 5:1-15…
Then make a list of all that St. Paul says is required of Christians. The “do nots” are important but, for the purposes of this list, make them into positive statements. Marching orders.
So they made their lists and were excited by the concreteness of identity. And I felt my own shift…
The door is open.
Here is their combined list, shortened to fit this space. It is solid. It is specific. It is only the tip of the iceberg, but is sufficient for the day.
The door is open. Enter in…
•Be holy
•Be blameless and pure
•Imitate God as beloved children
•Praise Him
•Walk in love, a fragrant offering to God
•Have faith
•Have a spirit of wisdom
•have a spirit of thanksgiving
•Do fruitful works of light
•Expose the darkness
•Be filled with the spirit
•Be moral
•Be pure
•Be clean of speech
•Be obedient to God
•Walk as children of light, for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true
•Learn what pleases the Lord
•Take part in fruitful things
•Greet one another in psalms and hymns
•Sing to the Lord with all your heart
•Be beloved
•Be compassionate
•Be kind
•Be patient
•Forgive
•Let the word of Christ dwell in you
•Look carefully how you walk because the days are evil
•Worship
•Hold fast to truth
•Press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God
•Be mature minded
•Always and for everything give thanks in the name of Jesus Christ
In this time of great shaking, may we find hope & strength in the fullness of true identity. ❤️