Saturday, July 7th
Jesus said
to His Disciples,"Set your hearts
on the Father's Kingdom first, and
His righteousness, and all these other
things will be given you as well.
So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow
will take care of itself."
Matthew
6:33-34
Your loving Heavenly Father desires
above all things to bestow upon
each and every one of His beloved
children the power and fulfilment
of His righteousness. Humankind
is too weak, and incapable of attaining
through its own efforts to goodness
and holiness. Yet such is His destiny
in the Father's glorious cosmic
purpose.
And so virtue is given as it is
desired, and the more earnestly
it is desired, sought and reacted
to in obedience, humility and singleness
of purpose, so it is increasingly
bestowed. Faults and failures and
sin along the way will prove but
stepping-stones to further progress
as they are offered in penitence
to My saving love.
As the whole redeemed self is offered
continually to the Father's loving
purpose, so is it sanctified and
orientated into that unique place
in the divine order for which it
was designed. So will it rejoice
at the end of time in the completion
of its task in totality. And throughout
eternity that joyful one, in the
company of countless other, will
be with the Source of all joy, perfected
in love.