It is difficult to live a disciplined life in the midst of abundance. We have trouble saying the words no, or enough.
Of course, this is a great problem to have. Those who have little, those who have nothing, would trade places with us in a second.
But how do we practice freedom amongst abundance.
It seems to me that these questions are not only true of our physical diets but of our spiritual lives. Barth emphasizes that we live in God's unmerited grace. That conversations about God do not begin with the I, but the Thou. Our role in response to that is one of freedom and choice, freedom of obedience or of disobedience.
But I am left to wonder if we take all of this for granted. Do we live in such abundance of God's love that we lack the disciple to simply respond with a yes?
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