Part 1-Becoming Aware: Fed by Ravens
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: April 11, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Regeneration / Spiritual Growth
Groups: Journey - Living Courageously - The Story of Elijah
Part One of the Living Courageously, the Story of Elijah series.
Readings: Exodus 20:3-5; 1 Kings 16:29-33, 17:1-7; Arcana Coelestia 4063, 4145
A person who is being regenerated is perfected gradually. At first one can neither know or understand anything except that one should be rewarded because we are the ones who do good things. If we did not believe this at first we would never do anything good. But by this means we are introduced not only into the affection for doing good but also into ideas concerning good and also concerning merit. And once we have been guided in this way into the affection for doing good we start to think and to believe that good flows in from the Lord and that we merit nothing. And when at length true affection lies behind our willing and doing what is good we reject merit altogether and indeed loathe it. Then we are moved by an affection for good for the sake of what is good. (Heavenly Secrets 4145)
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