Today’s readings: Genesis 17:3-9; John 8:51-59
‘You and your descendants must keep my
covenant.’
God promises so much to us...a land, protection, family, life...to
name a few. And what we are to do in return is to keep his covenant.
So, how do we keep his covenant? Christ has told us...we must
know Him. To know someone the way Jesus says, requires a desire to listen to
them and follow them. That means that we must spend time with God, or we will
not know him.
Every day, Jesus went up a mountain to pray. If Jesus, being one
of the three persons of God needed to constantly be in communication with the
Father an Holy Spirit...then it should not be surprising that if we want to
know God...we HAVE to spend time each day in prayer. And that prayer must
include some time to allow God to encourage and challenge us to change. It must
give us the ability to follow the will of God and to seek his goodness.
It seems that is what the readings are trying to tell us. If we want to have true freedom, and to have it eternally...we must strive to meditate on the love of God and how we fit into his family.
Today, let us spend time in the presence of God through prayer, for it is in knowing God and living in that covenant that the world becomes open to us.
It seems that is what the readings are trying to tell us. If we want to have true freedom, and to have it eternally...we must strive to meditate on the love of God and how we fit into his family.
Today, let us spend time in the presence of God through prayer, for it is in knowing God and living in that covenant that the world becomes open to us.
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