The Light and Darkness

 

PART XXV

Lord, give us Your Word and protect from famine for the Word of God

  St. John Climaccus wrote in his book of The Ladder of Divine Ascent about the spiritual father; ‘the ship cannot run without a captain, the soul will become astray if there is no spiritual father.’We should be obedient to our spiritual father or our spiritual teacher. In the Scripture says Hebrews 13:7 (NJB): Remember your leaders, who preached the word of God to you, and as you reflect on the outcome of their lives, take their faith as your model. We should rememeber the teachings of our spiritual teachers or our spiritual fathers. They are taught us the Word of God in the Holy Spirit with the grace and truth. God has entrusted us to them to teach us the mysteries of the Kingdom of God and if we disobey them, we make them sad. Otherwise it will not be useful for us. Hebrews 13:17 (NJB): Obey your leaders and give way to them; they watch over your souls because they must give an account of them; make this a joy for them to do, and not a grief—you yourselves would be the losers. 

Whole world is experiencing the famine of Word of God as Prophet Amos had written. We will never experience the real taste of Word of God unless we get deep into it with a fervent zeal. ‘The days are coming—declares the Lord Yahweh –when I shall send a famine on the country, not hunger for food, not thirst for water, but famine for hearing Yahweh’s word.’(Amos. 8: 11). In the year of 2001  I was encountered with our Brothers in Abu Dhabi. They, Br. Joemon and Br. Abey came to my place and they shared the Word of God. It was like God has prepared for us a big feast and prepared a big spiritual banquet for me,  a sinner’s sake. How God is merciful to us, we don’t know but He will always give us the best from His Kingdom. The world has no eye to see it and Jesus is telling us how blessed are we, as He has chosen us as his own. ‘Blessed are your eyes because they see your ears because they hear! In truth I tell you, many prophets and upright people longed to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it’ Matt. 13: 16-17. Our eyes are blessed because God has allowed us to see His mysteries and secrets through our internal eyes. God only reveal the mysteries to those who fear Him. 14 Only those who fear Yahweh have his secret and his covenant, for their understanding. Psalm 25:14 (NJB). When the light of Jesus comes in us the darkness goes from our mind and heart and will understand the Scriptures and the power of God.