A column by Frederick J. Streets, Professor in the Practice of Theology and Social Work at Yale Divinity School, explores the concept of being God’s servant and seeking God’s light.
Trust in God
It requires trust in God, in life, and in a vision of what could be. Most of us are not called to live out our faith in a massive, public way, but instead become changed people with a distinct set of values and a way of living that runs counter to a culture that measures success by wealth or status.
Our response to God’s call transforms our daily choices, and even if our external circumstances stay the same, the way we view other people, our life, and ourselves become filtered through our trust in the Divine.
God’s Greatest Work
God said something about humans that God never said about anything else – looking at our first ancestors, God declared them and us ‘very good.’ We are the greatest work of God, made a little lower than the angels.
A Christian community affirms that there is more grace in God, and more of God in us, than there is sin in us. We are God’s greatest work, and that is exactly why God in Christ died and rose again for us.
Original reporting: New Haven Independent — read the source article.
