19/09/2021

Everyday I know the Love that is God for I continue with my life even though I am a sinful man. My own love is but a poor reflection of God's Love because I am a sinful man. St James warns us that we are to avoid the basic sin that is putting our self before everything. Wisdom offers an insight into evil's reaction to the presence of the good man. He has to be tested to breaking point and this is what happened to Jesus.

We have to believe that Jesus did know the disturbances through which his Church, founded out of his Love, would have to go. Not only in these later days, but even as he walked in front of  the weak humanity he had chosen to trust and to build up. The chosen disciples were so close that they could touch the physical presence of the Kingdom of God on earth and yet they started to argue about rank within the nascent Church.

So much strife in the Church results from self-centered ambition; child abuse is a result of self-centered bodily desires; "cover ups" are self-centered efforts to avoid the shame that should rightfully be accepted.

Dear Lord, enable me to overcome the strife that is inside myself so that putting You and all others before myself I may come to that peace that is yours, beyond understanding; the Father. Son and Holy Spirit.