BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

We United Methodists have a wonderful song in our hymnal with the title named above. The lyrics go like this:

When our confidence is shaken in beliefs we thought secure,
When the spirit in its sickness seeks but cannot find a cure,
God is active in the tensions of a faith not yet mature.

Solar systems, void of meaning, freeze the spirit into stone;
always our researches lead us to the ultimate unknown.
Faith must die, or come full circle to its source in God alone.

In the discipline of praying, when it’s hardest to believe,
in the drudgery of caring, when it’s not enough to grieve;
faith, maturing, learns acceptance of the insights we receive.

God is love, and thus redeems us in the Christ we crucify;
this is God’s eternal answer to the world’s eternal “why?”
May we in this faith maturing be content to live and die. (words by Fred Pratt Green, 1971)

Now, for the life of me, I cannot think of one word to add to that marvelous text, describing perfectly what happens as we study, learn, and grow in our faith.

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