Thursday, January 7th
Luke 1:14-22

The Father's love surrounds and interpenetrates the whole of His creation. The children of his love may turn from Him to follow selfish and self-seeking paths or fall through perverse and alien influences or through the weakness of their human situation. Continuously the Father gives each one according to his need and his condition, and each calls each one and all together to return and to receive the healing of Our saving love.

Our love for Him becomes His love for Us and for his fellowmen: as it is desired so is it enlarged, and orientated to fulfil the Father's will and loving purpose. And so obedience grows as faithfulness increases. And faithfulness enables the establishment of the Father's Kingdom through Our saving, sanctifying love and the power of our Indwelling.

So is the Gospel preached where Love presides and rules the hearts and minds : the blind receive their sight, the captives freed. This is the Father's will and loving purpose for each and every one and for His whole creation.