Doing the will of God is a discipline
in the best sense of the word. It is also a test of our loyalty, of our
fidelity to Christ. It is by doing in every detail, at every moment, to the
utmost of our power, as perfectly as we can, with the greatest moral integrity,
using our intelligence, our imagination, our will, our skill, our experience,
that we can gradually learn to be strictly, earnestly obedient to the Lord God.
Unless we do this our discipleship is an illusion and all our life of
discipline, when it is a set of self-imposed rules in which we delight, which
makes us proud and self-satisfied, leaves us nowhere, because the essential
momentum of our discipleship is the ability in this process of silence and
listening, to reject our self, to allow the Lord Christ to be our mind, our
will and our heart. Unless we aim at what St. Paul defines as 'it is no longer
I but Christ who lives in me', we shall never be either disciplined or
disciples.
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