16/02/2022

I still feel self-conscious about using the word "religious". James' epistle makes it clear that there is no cause for embarrassment in religion. Although there are certain negative connotations"religion " is the word that contains within it all that is fitting about a man and his realtionship with God. God wants us to bear witness to the truth about ourselves living in creation. I am, not because "I think" but because God made me. He knows me. He loves me. I have my one and only opportunity to recognise the Glory of Father Son and Holy Spirit today, now. That is religion that is pleasing to God.

I can say that, but I am suspicious of my motives. Am I playing to an unseen gallery? Has my life shown the sincerity that is the only way to be true to God; to have religion in this world. In eternal life in God's presence there are no doubts. God's Mother knows Jesus, Father Son and Holy Spirit perfectly and it is that perfection that I hope to ultimately be part of by the power of God's Love for a sinful man who knows that heaven is possible but only by the Grace that inspires my religion. Every one of us is a temple a church to worship our Creator. Religion is our response to the Love that is the Father and Son and Holy Spirit. God knows our response not collectively but each one of us is known by name and never forgotten.

Dear Lord the blind see the lame walk and the poor, everyone of us alone before you have the Good News.Let me not forget this today and let me behave in the way that you want me to.