With Leddy Hammock and Sue Riley
Discernment is the quality that carefully weighs a question and draws a clearer perception. Wisdom is using discernment to draw the right conclusion. In our life experiences, we may not always have seen the difference, but we certainly can remember the ramifications that followed. Salome had made decisions that she thought were the correct ones and then she was asked to re-evaluate, to change her mind, to change her thinking. That can mean making deep self-evaluation and taking outrageous risks that call for both unconditional love and good judgment. Join us as we spend a little time with Salome, a woman of power.
RESPONSIVE READING:
Discernment/Wisdom / Judgment / Decision – Salome
Salome was mother of two of the disciples of Jesus, James and John. Her name means “whole; sound; perfect; complete; finished; peaceful;’ friendly; enveloped; clothed;” wife of Zebedee “Jehovah has given.” Mother of James of Zebedee: “supplanter;” “the faculty of judgment in individual consciousness…. We also call this faculty justice . . . . it is that quality in us which carefully weighs a question and draws a conclusion . . . We should therefore faithfully affirm the spiritual aspect of this faculty and always seek the guidance and good judgment of spiritual light and understanding.”
“Then [Salome] the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something. He said to her, ‘What do you wish?’ She answered him, ‘Command that these two sons of mind sit, one at your right and other at your left, in your kingdom’” (Matthew 20:20-21).
Lord, let my thoughts be aligned to Your right hand
and my feelings be aligned to Your heart side.
“Jesus said in reply, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?’ They said to him, ‘We can’” (Matthew 20:22).
Let my mind and heart be consecrated to the Christ.
“He replied, ‘My cup you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left (this) is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father’” (Matthew 20:23).
As I grow in the consciousness of Spirit, my mind naturally clears and my heart naturally opens.
“Jesus summoned them [all] and said, ‘…whoever wishes to be great among you shall be
your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.
Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve” (Matthew 20:24-8).
Let all my decisions serve the intentions of Spirit.
I am humble and teachable,
serving the Christ in each and all with all my mind and heart.