16/12/2024

Today's readings are three that take us back to both the earliest and the final days of God's interventions with the civilised and civilising mankind of the Middle-East.

The pagan people who surrounded Israel had "gods" but they also had a practical spirituality that probably preceded their mythologies. They sacrificed in their temples. They told and listened to stories about the gods of Mount Olympus,  sacrificed on the "High places of Baal" but also believed that there were places and people who were "wired-into" an invisible network of "Holy Truth" that revealed itself only in riddles.

Balaam, a priest of Baal, was such a one, an oracle and an interpreter of riddles. His story is told because he was sent to curse the Israelite rabble coming out of Sinai but in the event he was overcome by IAMIAM and could only pray for the good of God's chosen people.

David's prayer is that the Lord will be with him throughout his life. It is the prayer that is part of the network of being that connects us all. We silence it when it interferes with lives that are wrapped-up with Mammon but when it is within my consciousness I can become part of the Body of Christ, the Church of Love, that is the truly Divine network of humanity sought by pagan but still human oracles.

I think that sometimes I get the wrong idea about Jesus' dealings with the priests and Pharisees. He is not "seeing through" their wily dialogical tactics, he does not win "debating points" but is showing us that we have to give up on self-esteem in order to cooperate with the grace that is always seeking out and inspiring us to make the free-choice that is the purpose of all of our lives. 

It is from  "The Spiritual Body of Christ Network" that we all acquire what we need to become holy people of God for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has completed the revelation of all that we need to know to be able to live in his Love on earth and thus become prepared for eternity; our God is AllinAll. Wow!!

David:

                       Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he shows his ways to sinners. 

He guides the humble in right judgement, to the humble he teaches his ways.

Penny Catechism:

God made me to know, love and serve him in this world and be happy with him in the next.

Dear Lord, Help me to sincerely follow your ways and instinctively choose what is the path of righteousness. Mary and all the saints are with you now and I believe that my prayers can be joined with theirs and those of all of us who although sinners here on earth open our beings to the Grace that brings your Loving Mercy to us and to the Holy Souls. Let me become a life that is lived fearlessly in your Love. Amen.