Friday, February 6, 2015

Friday, February 6, 2015

Galatians 5:16-24

           

        Choices.

Choices may be very easy, or they may prove to be moments which lead to great personal challenge. Time after time, when faced with the opportunity of making a choice, the decision we make has a consequence.

Living with those consequences may prove to be either liberating or paralysing.

 

The Epistle to the Galatians allows the reader to reflect on some of those options that exist as a life with meaning is being built upon a foundation of faith.

The Epistle lists choices available to individuals, not just once, but almost on a daily basis. The choices are often experienced in those moments when we are engaged in relationships with other people. The point being made by the author of the Epistle is that our words and our actions reflect on who we are as people of a professed faith in Jesus. The choices we make in our lives provide a glimpse into our souls.

One of the realities of our lives is reflected in our pattern of worship, as time and time again we come before God and ask for forgiveness, God’s forgiveness, to be a part of our life experience. We pray that we may be picked up out of the mess into which we have fallen, be dusted off and set on our feet once again. Time and time again that forgiveness, God’s forgiveness, is declared and the cycle begins again.

Choices.

Making choices and living with the consequences of our decisions is an inescapable reality for us all.

- The Reverend Canon Christopher B. J. Pratt

Rector Church of St. John the Evangelist