Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul's Path to God by Gary L. Thomas

Author:Gary L. Thomas [Thomas, Gary L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Personal Growth, Christian, Religious
ISBN: 9780310835547
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Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-09-16T20:00:00+00:00

When our activism is oriented around the love of God, it is as acceptable to God as the contemplative’s prayer. If it is oriented around confrontation for its own sake, we may be feeding a sinfully divisive spirit rather than serving the unifying Holy Spirit.

There are many Christians who serve God with great purity of soul and perfect self-sacrifice in the active life. Their vocation does not allow them to find the solitude and silence and leisure in which to empty their minds entirely of created things and to lose themselves in God alone. They are too busy serving Him in His children on earth. At the same time, their minds and temperaments do not fit them for a purely contemplative life: they would know no peace without exterior activity…Nevertheless they know how to find God by devoting themselves to Him in self-sacrificing labors in which they are able to remain in His presence all day long…Although they are active laborers they are also quasi-contemplatives because of their great purity of heart maintained in them by obedience, fraternal charity, self sacrifice and perfect abandonment to God’s will in all that they do and suffer. They are much closer to God than they realize. They enjoy a kind of “masked” contemplation.15

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