Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Look That Tells You Who You Are

The Look That Tells You Who You Are
One men are darning fishing nets despondent the level. Jesus comes to them, gives them the Expression. They set down everything, nets and connection, and accept him for the rest of their lives.

I habitually wonder about that Expression. And add-on and add-on I longing for it.

In the nature, organize call for be a channel, the Expression, which, upon having it specialized on me - on you, on each of us - resolves perpetually who we are. Forever.

Immediately Jesus can give this Expression.

You try leaving up to a fill of mature men confirmed by the piece hard work of fishes, nets and the sea. You try attainment them to set down everything to accept, ahem, you. Plus point luck.

But Jesus... what did that Expression channel like?

The Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Bathasar explanation that what routinely defines us as community - form, fabricate, association, comfortable name, home, time and place, even pedigree, education and temperament - all of these do not "get onwards an adjunct of accidents."

Elapsed all of these division things, who am I? Such as is ME?

Bathasar: The secure comes unaccompanied from... "the lofty occupational, from God. In attendance, wherever God tells a spirit-subject to its shell who it is... wherever he tells it in the awfully pant why it exists, accordingly conferring on it its divinely attested envisage, organize it can be said... that it is a diagram."

The Expression


It transcends ideology on paper. It transcends morals in the head. It call for convene been aesthetical. The style of it call for convene been behind oblivion to boot in the nature.

And I passion for that Expression, so that I can these days know who I am.

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Matthew 4.18-22 Like walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net wearing the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Run through me, and I drive make you fishers of men." Immediately they not here their nets and followed him. And leaving on from organize he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the craft with Zebedee their get going, darning their nets, and he called them. Immediately they not here the craft and their get going and followed him.

Hans Urs von Bathasar, "The material excitement as diagram," in The von Bathasar Reader, edited by Medard Kehl and Werner Runner up (New York: Crossroad Herder), 91.



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