To cooperate with the Lord as the Word so that we can be created anew is the essence of spiritual life. This new creation is not of the material world but is a spiritual creation, a new form of mind that lives consciously from the Word.
We need to take care that we don’t diminish the status of the Sacred Scripture in our thinking. For it to be viewed as anything less than the LORD goes against the central tenant of angelic wisdom and so can do nothing but weaken the Word’s power to effect change in people’s lives.
Temptation is unavoidable in the spiritual life and this sermon explores this idea through seeing the picking up of one’s cross as a conscious choice to embrace the spiritual disciplines of self-examination and repentance.
