The Weaving

The Weaving

My life is but a weaving, between my God and me;
I do not chose the colors, He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side.
Not til the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver’s hand
As threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.

–Anonymous

True Christianity

Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. Luke 9:24

We gain and grow in the Christian life by giving away our lives for Christ and to others. That can be painful yet enormously fruitful. When we bear testimony to Christ, we discover that instead of shrinking (as we perhaps feared), we grow. Our witness to Christ involves everything we are and do, particularly the way we serve others. Here we touch the essence of the transformation Christ brings to our lives. He himself came as a servant. If we are not serving others, we cannot be growing more like Christ; and if we are not growing more like Christ....we are not growing.

Serving involves learning to pray for others, to give time to them and for them, to use our talents and organize our finances in such a way that these too are offered in tribute to Christ. To live thus is to be blissfully delivered from the self-obsession of our age and to discover that the service of Christ is perfect freedom. (excerpted from Healthy Christian Growth, by Sinclair Furguson)

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves,

by relating that we observe,

by affirming that we examine,

by showing that we look,

by writing that we think,

by pumping that we draw water into the well.

-Henri-Frederic Amiel