Faith Venture

I read the word “infused” in Eugene Peterson’s Message Bible translation. That word and the concept held within it is fascinating.

Zen Buddhist monk Henry Shukman said recently during an interview, “Life is like hot water and meditation is like the tea bag.”

Try this thought for size.

You (me, everyone) are body living within the soul. We don’t know the true meaning of the Temple that Paul references when he says that our bodies are now the Temple where the Spirit resides. Ancient peoples built temples for a place where their god lived.

Jesus sort of blew up that entire view. He said that God was all around us. As a spirit. And Paul tried to explain it that God as the Holy Spirit lives in us. It would be like that tea bag that infuses the hot water of our being.

Before I get too nerdy in philosophy, let us just consider this:

What would it mean for us that we opened to the Spirit allowing it to infuse our entire being, our entire life, how we live, how we think, how we relate?

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