Knitting a Conundrum: Doing as He tells us 1

Knitting a Conundrum

Co*nun"drum (?), n. [Origin unknown.]
1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

Our Conundrum jumps off with Micah 6:8: You have been shown what is good: to act justly, love kindness, and to walk humby with God. Here we will try to take the moral high road on peace, war, love and hate,

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Doing as He tells us 1

"Why do you call me `Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?

"Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

"But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." Luke 6:46-49 RSV

People like to make fun of the WWJD slogan that has been popular in some circles the last few years. Yet the basis of knowing how to do what we ought to do for a holy life is bound up in just that: knowing what Jesus might do, what his teachings say, about how to handle life's situations.
In the Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis declares: "Whoever desires to understand and take delight in the words of Christ must strive to conform his whole life to Him. "(I, 1).

Sometimes it seems that how we do this can be trite, driven by current social norms and ideas, like in the question, "Would Jesus drive an SUV?" which I have seen discussed. But no matter, it is still the direction we should walk in. "Follow me," Jesus says, and we need to study how to follow him.

Labels: Following Jesus