Renewal

There is no anxiety in Heaven. 

Parable of the Talents (Mironov)

I have been thinking about anxiety. 

There is such suffering in anxiety because anxiety is taking our own Will and elevating it above God’s Will.  You see, where we accept the Holy Will of God, we can also understand that we have nothing to fear because everything that happens is God’s own Will…

And I have been reflecting on this when considering the Parable of the Talents.  You see, of the three servants it was not the lack of return that the lazy servant was berated on – it was his lack of trust in the master.  You see, it was this lack of trust in the Master that meant that the lazy servant never even tried to do what he needed to do.  He gave up before he started because he could not bring himself to believe in the mater’s goodness.  And it is in that giving up that the master became angered…

“Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.  So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’  His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?  Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.  ‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags.  For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.  And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”

There must be a continual re-dedication of purpose in what I do in my life.  It is not enough for me to simply say that I am going to preserve everything that I have – instead, I am asked to continually invest the gifts that God has provided to me.  I am asked to continually reach out to others and share the wealth.  I am asked to trust that God is not asking a little of me – but everything of me.  And in so asking, God is allowing me to grow into what is needed rather than being pre-qualified…

And there is a trust and a surrender that is so intense that it feels as though there is a renewal of the soul in recognising that.  It feels as though my entire life will resurrect if only I could bring myself to understand that God is not asking me to be afraid.  There is no anxiety in Heaven.  He is asking me to trust in Him and do my very best with what I have.

And that is really all that I need to be doing right now.  That is really all…

For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.