Be Still And Know

Ephesians 1:7-8 NLT 'He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.' Intimacy lies at the very heart of love. Today, intimacy with God is a given. Trouble is that we can take this intimacy for granted and fail to see the price paid and the response required. It was the poet TS Eliot who spoke of “an age of moderate virtue” and “moderate vice”. In other words, we can all too easily settle for a middle way that is neither hot nor cold. As if in some way, this is the life well-lived, for it is devoid of extremes. Yet, outrageous love is love lived at the extreme. It is the incarnation, itself always realised within the shadow of the cross and the death that purchases the fullness of life after which we all aspire. I confess I have been challenged throughout my life with moderation and extreme. To live at the extremity of what I know, in search of that which I have yet to