Of Mystery and Semantics

Fellow Labourers-

Is the glass half empty or half full?

Perspective, perspective, perspective. But, what is reality? One of our greatest challenges, is to be able to ask the right questions. It is through our questioning that we are going to be able to develop a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Nicodemus heard and saw something in Christ that challenged his belief. What did he do? He sought an answer.

In Malcolm Muggeridge's "A third testament", commenting on Blaise Pascal's penses he says the following: "Man is great only in that he knows he is wretched. The very reason on which he so prides himself leads him to conclude that there are an infinite number of things beyond it. Pride separates him from God, and induces him to believe that he is god himself. When he "licks the earth" he is cast into the other abyss and seeks his good in sensuality, which is the lot of the animals. Egomania and erotomania, the two sicknesses of the godless, afflict him."

"Ask and it shall be given unto you, Seek and ye shall find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you."

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart J.P.
Pastor