20/06/2024

The Old Testament is the record of Man's reactions to the revelations of himself made by God. The story of Elijah and Elisha is a spectacular vision of the Glory and Otherworldly power of God. It is nowhere near to an eye-witness account of what had happened in the days of Elijah as it was composed about 500 years after the "events" it describes.

The psalm acknowledges the power of God to whom Elijah returned in such a spectacular fashion and calls us all to worship the Wonder of IAMIAM.

The New Testament records Jesus' "formation" of his band of followers who are witnessing the events leading up to the completion and results of God's revelation. The Resurrection.

To be able to comply with IAMIAM's (Father, Son and Holy Spirit's)  love that is revealed in  creation, mankind has to know its place. During the Old Testament there were repeated backslidings from the Covenants by which God chose to show himself not as an all powerful "code writer" but as an ultimate "being" loving and trusting the apex of his creation to be able to use "human freedom" to be in our bodily life souls that know that they are known.

We have been formed to live lives of prayer in communion with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We reply in freedom to our Creator. 

All prayer has to acknowledge our place in God's family of humanity, to comply with his will  so as to be as is the spiritual heaven here on earth, to ask for his support for our material bodies, our love of others is to become God's measure for his love of us, we ask to be shielded from the  power of the false ways of the material world and to be saved from the ultimate "evil" which is loss of faith in God.

Dear Lord, Forgive me for "blabbering". I have to use words to enable me to see what it is that I believe. I have to make this record as I am one being praying alone. I hope that my prayers can become part of the Church that is your mystical body on earth supported by the prayers of Mary and all the saints. Let me live out this day free from serious sin and let my sins and the sins of all the world be blotted out by the mercy flooding out from your side on Calvary.