12/07/2024

The first steps that I make towards God are inspired by faith and reinforced by my choice. I must have no fear that I am despised by worldly standards. This is fear is the self pride which I know is stupid,especially for the wretch that I truly am.

 Jesus tells his disciples that they have to have no fear that their words will not be adequate for the mission he is entrusting to them. The Holy Spirit will shape their thoughts and they will never be at a loss for words to do justice to their task. We can still take heart from these words of the Lord.

"Do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes; for it is not you who will be speaking; the spirit of your Father will be speaking in you."

All of the Bible is a record of this inspiration received throughout History. We are all surrounded  in the love and mercy that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have to recognise that all that we are, the all that we know comes from the creative Love of the Trinity. 

The earthly mission of each one of us is to acknowledge that we have to know, pray with sincere faith in the Father , love, accept with joyful thanks the incarnate Resurrection, and serve, do what ever is revealed to our consciences by the Holy Spirit working through the Father and Son.

Throughout the 2000 years since Jesus spoke  these words 

"I tell you solemnly that you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes" 

Millions of us must have been disappointed and millions have used Jesus' as yet unfulfilled promise to return to justify their own sinful lives and mock the faithful.

We have to be prompted by "faith" to reach out for God during our lifetimes and as we draw to the close  we can be sure that we will have to answer to Jesus for the being that we have made of ourselves. 

The "Word" that I have made of myself has to answer to the Word of God.

Dear God, let me not loose touch with the Love that is your being. Let me become sincere in my faith and let these words reflect the reciprocated love that inspires me each morning. One day I know that I will see you as you really are and then let me just "be" with you. May I never loose sight of Mary and all the Saints who together can bring your mercy to all us sinners on earth and in Purgatory. Help me to know your ways and let me atone for the sins of my lifetime which can be washed away by your bountiful mercy and my sincere penitence.

 I make these thoughts and prayers to and through Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Lord have mercy.