We want, as one contemporary writer notes, Metabolife 356 spirituality. Not one to miss out a good thing, I asked my doctor about it. He said, Natural or not, speed is still speed. The only safe and responsible way to lose weight and maintain your health is to watch what you eat and exercise regularly. The same is true for spiritual shortcuts.
Spiritual formation is a process that extends over our entire lifetime.
What happens between our birth and death. Today s lessons speak to that process, which for us Christians begins, not ends, with baptism. The passage from Isaiah provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the responsibility of those who acknowledge God s sovereignty in their lives. Each of us who call ourselves servant, as Jesus did and told his followers they too were to be, is chosen by God, upheld by God, empowered by God, sent into the world by God with specific tasks. The overriding task, as envisioned through the prophet Isaiah, is restoration of the order of compassionate justice that God has created and upon which the wholeness of the universe depends.