+ Our readings today are clear
and to the point: the point being that God is God and we are not,
none of us, and that he is to be given top billing and not ourselves, and that
when we find ourselves veering off this clear-cut path – it will not bode well
for us;
but again, if we consider our
defections, our misspeak, our misdeeds and return to the Lord our God – and his
will and ways – then he is ever ready to forgive and to elevate us to a new
prosperity and abundance than we could have imagined on the other side of our
derelictions.
On this Lenten Friday then, we
consider honestly whether we love the
Lord, our God, with all our hearts, our souls, our minds and our strengths. And
do we love our neighbor as ourselves?
If an honest assessment brings
a negative reading: then take a moment this day and turn again to the Lord God
– ask him to overlook our foolishness, inconsistencies, and outright
self-seeking sins, and to take us back again into his love, his care and his protection.
And he will do it –
immediately, without question, without hesitation – and without placing on our
shoulders any kind of guilt whatsoever.
And we shall become like a
blossoming lily, a Lebanon cedar, a splendorous olive tree! and we shall bear
much fruit – fruits of good speech and good deeds, encouraging speech and
encouraging deeds, hopeful speech and hopeful deeds! And the Kingdom of God
shall progress that much farther in being rooted and established in our midst,
because of our cooperation.
“You
shall love the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve!”
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