As we head to a new year....
"But every Christian plan of the future will, and must, be valueless if it does not remain oriented toward Christ. For Christ is not a 'program' that can be surveyed or drawn off and bottled and simply taken with one on a 'future operation'. Only in the openness of contemplation and listening prayer is there revealed to us ever anew what Christ, in whom we have our origin, means and wants. Every action that is not rooted in contemplation is doomed to sterility from the start."
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, "The Moment of Christian Witness"
All of us get bombarded with messages. Many of them political messages. I have come close to blocking a number of people who are so overt in their right-wing messaging.
When we who are following Jesus fight for political power and seek to exercise dominance over other people, we have abandoned the light of Christ and returned to the darkness of idolatry. Instead of worshiping God; living out the mystery of Christ in us; being empowered by God's Spirit to proclaim the ways of the kingdom; we are worshiping power.
As von Balthasar says above, "every Christian plan of the future... must be... oriented toward Christ."
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