Run by a Spiritual Motor

And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." They immediately left their nets and followed him. Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him (Matthew 4:18-22)  

Cars don't run themselves. We lug these two ton beasts from point A to point B by using a driving force. In our Jestsons world we have cars powered by fossil fuels, corn, electricity, and the sun. No room for sorcery. But what powers us?

Michael Moore and his socialist pals believe that the greed of the capitalists get people going. There's nothin' like a good ol' exploitation to drive human action. Little boys are driven by lust after their mothers and envy of their fathers, says Sigmund Freud. Oedipus schemedipus. Prolific writers Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises try to ascribe "selfishness"a positive definition. They purport the driving force of man to be selfishness. Selfishness is wrong in each time and every space. The distinction they fail to make, is between selfishness and self-interest. We are all self-interested. We can use it for evil, or for good. A man's self-interest can drive him to selfishness, or to selflessness. Whether Saint Teresa uppercuts a vagabond, or clothes orphans, she is acting in her self-interest. My spirit would call for her to do the latter. But, I would chortle at the former. I'm sick. Heal me lord.

Paul calls himself the bondservant of Jesus Christ. Then he tells us that his servitude is what makes him free. Is this a blatant contradiction? An unrepentant slap to the face of reason lovers? No. Outside of their context terms can be a haunted corn maze with a blindfold- hence the popularity of context clues in grade school. Context is fundamental. No, not like the jihadists. The fear of slavery to sin drives Paul. The love of liberty in Christ drives Paul. We will always have a master, thus we will always be slaves. The choice is simple to understand, but difficult to pursue wholeheartedly. On the one hand is the darkness. On the other is the light. If we disobey the commandments of the lord God, we are under the slavery of sin. If we obey God we have gained liberty over sin. In order to achieve this liberty we have to be stalworths in the law. Slaves to the law.

Jesus blessed us with The Law: for Dummies. Love. The first five commandments of the decalogue are fulfilled when we love the lord God. The final five, when we love one another. Jesus loves his apostles enough to kneel before them, and wash their feet. Unsettling then, unsettling now. Our response to his mercy cannot match his grace. No matter how much we pray, how much we glorify his name through hymns, and how many alms we give to the poor. There is always more for us to do. If the holy spirit is our driving motor, there is nothing we cannot do. We can do anything.

With the power to do anything, comes our responsibility to do something. To act as slaves to one another. To drop everything, and reel men in to kneeling and worshipping before the white throne of the father, son and holy spirit now unto the ages of ages.

AMAYN! LEYKOON!