In Your Infancy - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

I don't think that he was just doing a sort of a performative act of false humility in front of us. 'Oh, I'm just very young.' What I realized was that he was orienting himself in the truth of his infancy in God's eyes, because for him, that was a proper perspective on how to approach the whole conversation of his relationship with God. You, right now, as you are, imagine for a moment that you are, in fact, only in your infancy when it comes to your understanding of the power of God's love in your life and the power of God's love in the life of this creation. Many of us, I'm only 44, and I already am starting to do the thing where I'm like, I don't want to learn that thing. Like, cars without drivers, I hope I die before it happens. I'm down in my 40s, and I'm already picking the things that I don't want to learn. And so many of you were like, 'I'll never get online,' and then the pandemic happened and you're said, fine I'll learn Zoom, but you don't really want to. We're already saying, I've learned enough, I'm old enough, I've gotten far enough. I'm done, I'd like to kind of coast a little bit. And yet wherever you are in your life, whatever age you are, however, close you are to the end of your life on this Earth, you are still in your infancy when it comes to learning the power, the magnificence of God's love.