― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Koestler's words are his attempt to paint a picture of everything that opposes the will of God. Yet, through the experience of opposing God's will, God's love is eventually manifested when rejecting all that Satan represents, the result of human life learning from bitter experience.
Our daily trials register our choice to transform our behaviour from self destructive, to constructively revealing the will of the divine mystery to do no harm, and to love our neighbour as we would wish to be loved by others.
“and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception” ~Arthur Koestler
Paul of Tarsus faced his moment of enlightenment when the scales dropped from his eyes, leading him to understand that he had spent his earlier life deceiving himself into believing that following laws, rules, and regulations would fulfil God's plan for his life. Paul's eye opening experience on the road to Damascus would transform him from a slave serving laws, to a liberated follower of The Saviour. Paul the legalist, became Paul the humble apostle.
It is The Saviour who intervenes in our life asking us to drop all pretensions that our "intellectual genius" is sufficient to reveal His life, in ours.
Either we accept The Saviour's call, entering into a loving relationship with Him, or reject His invitation to embrace His love.
Our choice, for The Saviour coerces none.
John 15
No Greater Love
…14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.…
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