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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people, I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.
~ Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD) From the Preface to his lost ‘Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord’
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

The most helpful guidance ever received

To daily walk and talk with Jesus is to walk in the light, for He will unfailingly guide us and instruct us in all things pertaining to our life and work. To reject this shining path is to walk in the darkness. In the light we find rest and peace for our souls. We take this path ourselves, and we encourage others to take it, for it is only as we teach them this way that they will be enabled to pass from darkness to light, and from death to life. 

When we seek God in this way, we will always find Him and having found Him we will dwell in His love, should we continue daily in diligently seeking Him. Dwelling in His love, we will reach out to others as He directs us, with the love which we have received from Him. It is the natural human tendency to seek that which we love. If we love God, we will seek Him. If we seek Him, we will find Him. If we find Him, we will be empowered and directed by Him, moved by that same Love that moves the planets and the stars. If we are moved by compassion, His love will flow through us and heal our world.