In mutual seeking
Phil 3: 3-8a; Lk 14: 15-25
The initial lines of the Gospel today say it all: the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to Jesus and the pharisees were complaining. What really matters is not circumcision or not...but the relationship one has with the person of Christ.
Past glories, handed down traditions, legalistic requirements, ritual uprightness...these will not take you that far, however good and right and just they are. All that is expected of us is to get nearer and nearer, closer and closer, more and more in personal relationship with God. God keeps looking out for us as presented in the parables in the Gospel- the shepherd and the woman! And when God knows our efforts God doubles it up with grace, grace which comes in terms of our relationship with the person of Christ, before which everything else is trash.
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