Apprentice 2 Jesus

What kind of life do you live? Is it a dangerous one?

I don’t mean a life of crime or internet scams, or something like that. I mean dangerous in terms of giving up yourself and throwing yourself into the vastness of the Kingdom of God?

As I am finishing up Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, a quote again leaps out at me. This is when he realizes he has hidden himself in his short teaching career. He senses a call to the priesthood, and other confirm it in him, yet he balks.

He describes his life this way: “It was too tame, too safe, too sheltered. It demanded nothing of me. It had no particular cross. It left me to mysel, belonging to myself, in full possession of my own will, in full command of all that God had given me that I might give it back to Him. As long as I remained there, I still had given up nothing, or very little, no matter how poor I happened to be.”

Is your life too tame? Is it safe and sheltered? Too often we don’t mind missing out on a life of sacrifice, until we realize we are missing out on the great adventure that is the Kingdom of God.

Are you living dangerously in the hands of a powerful God? Or are you making your own way?