Instructions on Holy Living

Instructions on Holy Living
Thessalonians 4.1-8

St Francis, famously, referred to his own body as ‘brother donkey’. It was a beloved part of himself, and yet it often seemed to have a mind of its own. It needed taming, bringing into obedience, as one would teach a large and headstrong animal to do as it was told. The perfect partnership of rider and mount, in which the animal knows what the rider wants and takes delight and pride in doing it, is not a bad image of the perfect partnership between the indwelling of the holy spirit in someone’s life and the body’s recognition of, and obedience to, the spirit’s desires and promptings...

Taken from Paul for Everyone Galatians and Thessalonians – by Tom Wright