Tout pour Jesus
The hospital Nun's in Kathryn Hulme's Nun's story show that, whatever our doctrinal disapproval of religious orders, there is a truly biblical spirit at this point: 'all for Jesus, Sister William had said in the ward pulling on the rubber gloves. Say it, my dear students, every time you are called upon for what seems an impossible task. Then you can do anything with serenity. Say it for the bed pans you carry, for the old incontinents you bathe, for those sputum cups of the tubercular. Tout pour Jesus, she said briskly, as she bent to change the dressing foul with corruption.
It is that time of the year where you think about a good weekend with things to do. Good Friday services back home was always a boring one for me. One because the service lasted 3 hours , two when you came home there wasn’t any tasty food. But over the years all that has taken a back seat and it has proved to be a good time of reflection on Jesus and the cross.
There are two qualifying reasons that I have begun to grasp over the years during this time. One the whole point of the cross was to pay for my sins and two, I can’t do anything about it, it had to be Jesus. The only thing that I am expected to do is if God did what he did what is going to be my response. I have heard it many a times , what is you response is a standard application question but one that demands more and more as years go by. Demands increasing is not a sense of doing more it is more in the sense of God giving you the opportunity to do more. He entrusts you with bigger things every time. Jesus could not have done what he did on the cross if he had not surrendered himself totally. And as demands increase on our lifes God leads us to a point of total surrender.
As Sara Paddison writes in her book Hidden Power of the Heart “ When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it” and this is exactly what happens when the demands increase it increases the point of total surrender which in turn only enhances the opportunities that we get to serve God.
Even as we reflect on the Love of God may we also be aware that if reflection does not lead to a response it becomes just another year , another day but if it does provoke a response then there will be that lovely feeling of surrendering our life’s once again for his call and cause. And may we say with a thankfully heart “ Jesus all for Jesus” “Tout pour Jesus” when we do get to serve him in our daily living.
Until next time stay blessed.
It is that time of the year where you think about a good weekend with things to do. Good Friday services back home was always a boring one for me. One because the service lasted 3 hours , two when you came home there wasn’t any tasty food. But over the years all that has taken a back seat and it has proved to be a good time of reflection on Jesus and the cross.
There are two qualifying reasons that I have begun to grasp over the years during this time. One the whole point of the cross was to pay for my sins and two, I can’t do anything about it, it had to be Jesus. The only thing that I am expected to do is if God did what he did what is going to be my response. I have heard it many a times , what is you response is a standard application question but one that demands more and more as years go by. Demands increasing is not a sense of doing more it is more in the sense of God giving you the opportunity to do more. He entrusts you with bigger things every time. Jesus could not have done what he did on the cross if he had not surrendered himself totally. And as demands increase on our lifes God leads us to a point of total surrender.
As Sara Paddison writes in her book Hidden Power of the Heart “ When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it” and this is exactly what happens when the demands increase it increases the point of total surrender which in turn only enhances the opportunities that we get to serve God.
Even as we reflect on the Love of God may we also be aware that if reflection does not lead to a response it becomes just another year , another day but if it does provoke a response then there will be that lovely feeling of surrendering our life’s once again for his call and cause. And may we say with a thankfully heart “ Jesus all for Jesus” “Tout pour Jesus” when we do get to serve him in our daily living.
Until next time stay blessed.
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