“Be faithful to me and be without fear” (Inner Word).
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YOU ARE MINE
“You are mine, and no one can separate you from me” (Inner Word).
WHY SHOULD THE LORD DENY YOU ANYTHING?
“Why should the Lord deny you anything when you give Him everything?
LIVING IN THE SECURITY OF LOVE
“Trust in our love and reject all attacks!” (Inner Word).
I LOVE YOU MORE
POUR OUT YOUR HEART TO ME
“You can entrust everything to me and always pour out your heart to me” (Inner Word).
LOOK UP TO THE FATHER WITH JESUS
“Lift up your eyes with me to the Father and everything will be all right, whatever it may be” (Inner Word).
THE PRODIGAL SON
“I spend days, sometimes years, close to some souls to be able to ensure their eternal happiness. They do not know that I am there waiting for them, calling them every moment of the day… However, I never become weary…
YOU OVERLOOK THE SINS OF MEN
“Yet you are merciful to all, because you are almighty, you overlook people’s sins, so that they can repent” (Wis 11:23).
These words of Sacred Scripture reveal to us why our Father often waits so long for humans to convert, while we would have long since lost patience and invoked judgment upon them. The disciples also had to learn this lesson, when they wanted to bring down fire from heaven on a village that did not welcome Jesus (Lk 9:51-56).
We can only understand – at least a little – the immeasurable love and long-suffering of our Father towards the sinner when this same love has begun to transform our hearts in conformity with His own. Without in the least relativizing sin or trivializing its ugliness, He goes out in search of the sinner and always offers them the possibility of conversion. That is why He waits… The Father does not want His children to be lost; He wants them to be with Him for all eternity. This is the reason for His tireless waiting!
During the time of waiting, He calls us unceasingly until the last hour. This patience of God should by no means be a reason for people to live frivolously and lightly, because the point may also come when it is too late to convert.
Rather, God’s long-suffering is the great hope for humankind; and for us, who want to obey our Father, it is a deep consolation together with the firm confidence that even those who are far from God can still be saved.
In tomorrow’s meditation, I would like to illustrate with a passage from the Message to Sr. Eugenia this patience of God for us, how He overlooks our sins and continues to wait for us with love even though we turn away from Him. It is a story that the Father Himself tells about a man who, having lived far from God, finds himself at death’s door… There is no need to comment on it, for the story speaks for itself!
MY HOLINESS ADORNS YOUR SOUL
Our Father’s love is poured out upon us especially through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, whose worthy celebration and participation He commends to us. Here again we are the recipients and the guests – as long as we are in a state of grace – and we simply give God the opportunity to shower us with His goodness, as He is so fond of doing.