Thursday, July 11, 2002
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
When we feel lost, we need to open our eyes and ears and heart to the evidences of God
which He has placed all around us. We need to contemplate His love, His power, His
promises. Where is comfort to be found? In love and in truth--truth about life and about God.
(1
John 3.18
NRSV)
The pull of faith will always be stronger than that of disbelief wherever truth prevails. A
biographer of G.K. Chesterton received a letter from a person present when Chesterton
debated George Bernard Shaw on the merits of Christianity. In that debate Chesterton spoke
profoundly and forcefully for the faith. Shaw was a famous agnostic. Shaw appeared to have
won that debate. Nevertheless, afterward a young woman, a socialist, declared to the letter
writer: "But (Chesterton) was right." So right that, according to the letter writer, this young
woman "never looked back." Her entire life was changed as she listened to Chesterton's
arguments. Later she died as the abbess of an order of Nuns.
Dear God, when I am lost help me to find the fullness of life in your love and truth. Amen.
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