17. 04.
William Law Continues…
If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Here Law lists off a few virtues of Christianity, virtues that cannot be neglected if I claim Christ as my Lord. The issue I face most often is remembering that humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection are actual things I do in my everyday life. It seems as though I have the ability to ignore these virtues when they get in the way of progress and advancement on earth.
16. 04.
If we are to be in Christ new creatures, we must show that we are so, by having new ways of living in the world. If we are to follow Christ, it must be in our common way of spending every day.
William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
If I claim that Christ is my saviour and I have been made new by the Life Christ offers me, my daily actions should most certainly reflect that new life.
If I ignore or neglect that new life, it will soon fade. If I forget about it, or not even realized it has ever existed, it quite possibly may have never been there in the first place. Rather, I may have simply intellectually accepted the idea of sin and a saviour, but never even partially understood the true concept of God’s rejection of my natural, sinful self.
William Knelsen