Friday, February 20, 2004
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love
and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Thessalonians 1.3
NRSV)
In Homer's epic poem THE ODYSSEY, the sirens were mythical, evil creatures, half-bird and
half-women, who lived on an island surrounded by submerged, jagged rocks. As ships
approached the island, the sirens would sing beautiful seductive songs, luring the sailors to
their deaths. When Odysseus' ship approached the island, he ordered his crew to fill their ears
with wax to escape the lure of the sirens' songs. This done, he commanded them to bind him
to the mast as they passed the island so that he could not change his orders. On another
occasion, however, when the ship of Orpheus sailed by that same island, Orpheus sang a
song of his own that was so beautiful and divine that his sailors did not even listen to the
sirens' music!
We need to fill our lives with a song so beautiful that we cannot even hear the song of the
Tempter. But how do we do that? How do we apply this remedy to the reality and the ruin of
Temptation? Only one way. We must fill our lives with the love and hope of Jesus Christ, our
redeemer.
Lord Jesus, fill my life full of your love and hope. Amen.
Ron
Newhouse
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