Do We Have To?
Read: 1 Thessalonians 5:12–28 | Bible in a Year: Isaiah 50–52; 1 Thessalonians 5
출처: http://odb.org/2016/10/17/do-we-have-to/
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NSIGHT:Paul ends this letter with a frenzy of instructions. In today’s verses, one small string of phrases is closely linked and includes a key to their significance: “for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (vv. 16–18). We often wonder what God’s will is for us in our circumstances. Phrases like these, though couched in a presentation that seem to minimize their importance, help us to clarify what it is that God desires of us. Do you want to follow God’s will? “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
François Fénelon(1651 - 1715, in Château de Fénelon, in Sainte-Mondane, Périgord, Aquitaine, France ) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a scabrous attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699.
Prayers » François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cabrai (1651-1715)
Lord, I do not know what I ought to be asking of you. You are the only one who knows what I need. You love me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! –
give your child what I do not know how to ask for myself. I do not dare ask for crosses or consolation. All I can do is present myself to you.
Lord, I open up my heart to you. Behold my needs – the ones that I am not even aware of. Look at them, and act according to your mercy. Bring suffering on me or heal me, cast me down or raise me up – I adore your will for me even when I do not know what it is.
I will remain silent, offering myself up and giving myself over completely to you. I no longer have any desire other than to accomplish your will.
Teach me to pray; may you yourself pray in me and through me [some translations, “pray thyself in me”] (Fenelon: Meditations on the Heart of God, translated by Robert Edmonson. (Paraclete Press, 1997) p. 123)
