Spiritual Dispossession

Adrienne Von Speyr

 

All Glory To Thee LORD

From Adrienne Von Speyr's "Man Before God"

 

a Tree in a flower pot...

The hardest thing required of the believer is to place himself

at the disposal of something incomprehensible, 

something that begins to make sense

               only through love...

Until now he was collecting, gathering, counting and disposing...

Now he is meant to open himself in such a way that 

the hands he holds out to collect 

have to remain apart...

 

He (the believer) is embraced by God

in such a way that he is no longer capable of embracing anything.

He must keep himself as vessel,

and he cannot guarantee what this vessel will contain.

He no longer knows it

because he must allow 

what he had once 

well protected and thought through

        many times over

simply to flow into the infinite

        according to a rhythm that 

              God alone

                   determines ...

Adrienne Von Speyr

nothingness, limitedness, grace and GOD

... man's nothingness is overcome. It has been absorbed into holiness.  This indivisibility is GRACE, and it comes from GOD. GOD takes care of His own to the point of completely enveloping and covering them with His grace. But they are not buried underneath it, not lose their distinctive face, not paralyzed by the weight of an excessive giving.

Rather GRACE permeates, saturates and SETS AGLOW their entire being and places them in a new physical condition. ...

Limitedness,  does not stand in opposition to what GOD is and is capable of. After all, GOD created man in His image, and

an image can not be in contradiction to what it represents. ...