Monday, November
23rd
Jesus said,
"Once the hand is laid on the
plough,
no one who looks back is fit for the
Kingdom of God."
Luke
9:62
He who commits himself to the light
and power of Our Indwelling, in
the love and service of the Father,
will be perfected and fulfilled
as he continues faithful. His faults
and failures, perversities and sins
will be forgiven as he penitently
offers them to My redeeming love:
his soul and his life's work will
be progressed and, in the end, perfected
in the light and power of Our redeeming,
sanctifying love.
But he who counts the cost and
dallies with the hollow glories
of this mortal life enfeebles his
commitment to the claims and challenges
of his glorious destiny in his service
to the Father and his fellow men.
The double-minded man limps aimlessly
and fruitlessly between two ways
and he commits himself to neither.
That child of man committed to his
loving Heavenly Father increasingly
perceives the claim of love upon
his life and person. As he commits
himself in faith and trust to know
and do the Father's will We enter
and illumine, empower and progress
his going, bringing him at last
into the Father's glorious Presence,
there to rejoice for ever more with
angels and archangels and the whole
company of Heaven.