Looking for the will of God and following Jesus are the same thing. And to follow Jesus is to walk, step-by-step, not knowing what may be asked of you in the next quarter of an hour. There is no book – whether the Rule of the Community or the Sermon on the Mount itself – on which you can rely to tell you exactly what you must do at any given moment. You have to keep your eyes wide open to discern that somehow the way before you is a way of love, in which God’s will for you is going to be revealed through the living presence of Jesus and in the following of His steps. That is an exciting and exacting and exhausting way to live, because you never know what is going to turn up. There is something marvellous in the fact that God’s will for you in the next moment comes each time as a gift.
– Roland Walls
Reflection by Rev. V. Mitchell Hay on Sunday, January 27, 2019.
