A pure heart create for me
First Sunday of Lent - March 13, 2011
A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 50)
Jesus' three temptations in the desert were about choosing 'upward mobility'. Be relevant: do something the world will praise you for like making bread out of stones. Be spectacular: jump from the tower so that everybody can see you as someone so influential, so important. Be powerful: kneel before me and I will give you dominion over everyone and everything. But, Jesus said, 'No'. Because Jesus knew that God's way is not to be relevant, or spectacular, or powerful. God's way is downward. 'Blessed are the humble. Blessed are the poor of heart. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the peacemakers'.
- Henri Nouwen
May my intentions be guided by a pure heart. Let me do my work faithfully each day. Help me be meek and humble of heart, so that I can see past this world to be irrelevant, unspectacular and powerless. Help me choose the narrow way. Help me seek You.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
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