Friday, February 17th
Jesus said, "If your virtue goes no deeper than that of the Scribes and Pharisees you will never get into the Kingdom Heaven."
Matthew 5:20

It is not enough to utter platitudes concerning religion or to repeat prayers and praises to your Heavenly Father without the application of mind and heart. It is a blasphemy so to do. But if the mind is unenlightened, the heart cold and a child of the father identifies with thought and worship in a search for Reality that case is different. And he will be rewarded with understanding and insight if he perseveres. Your Heavenly Father knows your condition of heart and mind, and his love is around you from your life in your Mother's womb to the drawing of your last breath. And My saving grace is operative at all times. Our Holy Spirit enlightens and empowers. What wealth of support, encouragement and enabling is available, then, for the child of the Father who lives in loving commitment and trust!

And that child of the Father whose life consists in following his selfish ways, whose mind and body are not involved in the great cosmic dance of fulfilment , and his heart not given to the service of the Heavenly Father and his fellow men, can progress to the Father's Kingdom. Once the inner core of his will is orientated towards emergence from his condition of mortal inertia, even by mere reaction against the negativity of his condition, he can be set on his way to the Kingdom and he will be loved into the light and life and strength of the Father's way, rejoicing.