09/03/2023

My heart, my very being is known by God. I respond by prayer and my will. I try to maintain my approximate holiness. God knows that there is nothing more devious that my being which is always aware of its place in the world and even when I set out to pray can be taken up with worldly trivialities.

The people of the Old Testament were well aware of the importance of water for life. Some of them had spent a lifetime wandering from well to well in Sinai. I too have been a wanderer in that my life has not maintained the constancy of holiness for which God has created us. Father, Son and Holy Spirit warn us through Jeremiah that we should not have faith in what we are achieving in this world. No matter how great Man's mastery of creation shows itself to be, it will not last.

The psalm continues the contrast between those whose beings are always focussed on God and follow his path and those who have been misled  by Satan and their own egos to place all their trust in the created things of this world and ignore the Creator.

Jesus is the last of the Old Testament. The owner's son has come to the vineyard. Abraham warns Richman that the tenants will never give up self-centred Pride even if someone should return to life from death. Jesus' people of the Covenant are still with us and still in denial not only of Jesus but even of their own revealed knowledge of God. They control the Promised Land  by killing more than they are killed. 

The History of the Jews continues in our times very much as it did in the Old Testament but now most of them deny the existence of the God who has always loved them.

Dear Lord you have always chastised those whom you love whenever there is a need. Let me not only be aware of You but always live without sin striving to accept the perfection of soul that you have won for me. May, Mary who on earth was the perfection we should all strive for, in her heavenly perfection now lead all the Saints and Angel in imploring your Mercy for all the sinners on earth and in Purgatory.