04/11/2023

God knows everything there is to know about me. He knows that I am a weak but penitent sinner who knows that understanding His revelations is not as easy a yolk as the gentle Jesus declared it  to be.

St Paul is totally sure that the Jews remain in the Love of God because God has chosen them before time began. St Paul also is sure that it is the Resurrection that adds meaning to our beings.

I think that St Paul has missed the point that separates the teaching of Jesus from that of Moses. "My kingdom is not of this world" tells me that there is nothing in this World to which we should cling. The Church that he preached into being very soon became a human institution that put its own place in the world before the Mission it was created to fulfill.

God  always knows us in the reality of the"I/my" moment in His Providence just as he also knows the truly countless possibilities that have not attained reality. God does not create us to be damned. As image and likeness we have total freedom and each of is created into "our self" and preserved in our "I/my" being by the love of God who knows us only as individually free beings. We may place ourselves into categories, Jews, Gentiles, Christian, Moslem, British etc but to Our Father we are always David, Julius, John, Abdullah, Smith the named individual soul.

The overpowering glory of the Incarnation is not directed at any race or human institution but at the weak and lowly who are each of us promised a place with Father, Son and Holy Spirit in His Eternity. God's Providence is the reality in which each of us can respond positively to His call to each individual soul to live righteously as he did, never swerving from the Will of the Father.

Dear Lord, save me from the disquietude that troubles my soul. I feel that terrible events, of which there are still countless, should be prevented by you. St Paul was troubled in his heart by pondering the role of his "fathers" in the Crucifixion. You are God and I have to implore your help. You have not left us alone and I pray along with Mary and all the saints that all the souls of the world and purgatory receive your mercy and join you in the eternity that cannot be contained in my head but which must be loved by my heart.