The Path to Glory

Psalm 95, 102; Psalm 107:1-32
Jeremiah 23:1-8; Romans 8:28-39; John 6:52-59

Questions for comment:
What is one unlikely place from which you've experienced blessing?
When have you experienced love you wanted to share?

^{Romans 8:37-39} No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Origen: As long as we rely on God’s love, we suffer no feeling of pain. For his love, by which he loved us and drew us to him, makes us not feel the pain and crucifixion of the body. In all these things we are more than conquerors. The bride in the Song of Songs says something similar: “I am wounded with love.” In the same way our soul, once it has received Christ’s wound of love, will not feel the wounds of the flesh, even if it gives the body over to the sword.

Bray, Gerald: Romans (Revised). Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, 1998 (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture NT 6), S. 233

Unfortunately people wound eachother deeply. Yet, today's devotional from Nouwen and the reading from Romans say something more profound than just get over it rather they challenge us to be transformed by wounds of love. God takes the unlikely and wounds of love and turns them for glory.