tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post3497719535033580459..comments2023-09-06T10:36:17.025-04:00Comments on Wilderness Fandango: On Looking unto JesusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-79972760582358248732007-09-08T09:24:00.000-04:002007-09-08T09:24:00.000-04:00Here's a great sermon, sort of related.Making a pi...<A HREF="http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/EN1/Articolo.asp?c=153806" REL="nofollow">Here's a great sermon, sort of related.</A><BR/><BR/><I><BR/>Making a pilgrimage means setting out in a particular direction, travelling towards a destination. This gives a beauty of its own even to the journey and to the effort involved. Among the pilgrims of Jesus’s genealogy there were many who forgot the goal and wanted to make themselves the goal. Again and again, though, the Lord called forth people whose longing for the goal drove them forward, people who directed their whole lives towards it. The awakening of the Christian faith, the dawning of the Church of Jesus Christ was made possible, because there were people in Israel whose hearts were searching – people who did not rest content with custom, but who looked further ahead, in search of something greater: Zechariah, Elizabeth, Simeon, Anna, Mary and Joseph, the Twelve and many others. Because their hearts were expectant, they were able to recognize in Jesus the one whom God had sent, and thus they could become the beginning of his worldwide family. The Church of the Gentiles was made possible, because both in the Mediterranean area and in those parts of Asia to which the messengers of Jesus Christ travelled, there were expectant people who were not satisfied by what everyone around them was doing and thinking, but who were seeking the star which could show them the way towards Truth itself, towards the living God.<BR/><BR/>We too need an open and restless heart like theirs. This is what pilgrimage is all about. Today as in the past, it is not enough to be more or less like everyone else and to think like everyone else. Our lives have a deeper purpose. We need God, the God who has shown us his face and opened his heart to us: Jesus Christ. </I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172600040007166978.post-61577845843838940972007-09-06T16:29:00.000-04:002007-09-06T16:29:00.000-04:00Good word, Bob. I agree that the "heart totally so...Good word, Bob. I agree that the "heart totally sold out for God" concept must come from those who don't really know their own hearts very well.Milton Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09235705641913811166noreply@blogger.com