11/10/2024

Jesus' warning about the ability of devils to survive even the condemnation of God has been somewhere in my mind since first I heard it. I have never been able, however, to visualise the spiritual creation that is also the work of God. Hence, I have never felt comfortable in recorded visions of Heaven, Ezekiel, Daniel, Book of Revelations.

Jesus did tell us that he used parables to help us to understand his words and so I have only thought this story of how dangerous are the devils against whom we have to fight as, for me, a well-known cycle of piety, temptation, sin, confession, piety temptation and yet again a far more guilt-laden sin.

Psychiatrists have built reputations and fortunes by helping patients come to terms with their personal acceptance of the strangeness that is the mind of human life. St Paul had always in addition to his problems with fellow Jews, the Apostles, the knowledge of his own part in the death of Stephen, to face up to a "sting" which was present with him but unseen.

Today I know that Jesus is not a psychiatrist. He does not analyse and seek to cure mankind of guilt. He takes away the sins of the world by revealing FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S intentions for his material creation and for the image and likeness, mankind, that has been given the capacity to continue the work  of creation with our ability to choose to live according to the will of Our Father.

All our souls are real, an unseen presence within us, God is real, an unseen all powerful Love, devils are real, unseen enemies of God and Creation.

I can believe God, the Mystical Body of Christ, heavenly Love none of which I can see. It seems that it would be a much more rational of me to face-up to the Enemy of God and his creation with the Grace that I have never used to the fullest for St Peter's "roaring Lion"  does indeed continue to hunt for souls in the wilderness created by Godless Man.

Dear Lord, help me to do my duty in this life. Let me bear witness to you in my deeds, let my devotion to you be completely sincere, and let my life become prayer that will never lead me into temptation. I ask for your grace to be aware that the World of the Spirit has within it dangers that must be fought by Angels but can become evils when implemented in this world by sinful men of whom I am one. I know that Our Lady and Jesus are present in Heaven in enhanced material bodies which we can all share when God becomes for us "All in all". But now I am a body, mind and soul with soul being my way, truth and life to the gates that are always open not matter how hard the enemies block them by distracting us by the wonders of our abilities to understand and adapt the material of creation. May all sinners dying by shared violence today be cleansed of their sins by the abundance of your Mercy in Purgatory and may my sins and those of all the world be acknowledged with atonement even as I conclude this prayer for today. Amen