Daily Thoughts - Into the deep
"Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death."
So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM." So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area." John 8:51, 57-59
God is Love. God is standing before His accusers, they are filled with sin, blind by their own ambitions. They deny the One they are waiting upon and there He is, Love in the flesh. What is in the eyes of Jesus, what are they seeing, what is He seeing.
As I go into the world today, how many times will I deny Christ today? I don't go and seek to deny Him but it will happen with the choices I can make. Yet Christ is Love, He looks with compassion and with strength knowing that intentions are good.
The gaze of Christ is upon each of us, it isn't the gaze of an accuser but that of our Savior. He is Love and as He looks upon His creation, He sees the effects of sin and what it does to man. Yet there He stands living in the same place, dealing with the same situations and does not sin.
There is hope for each of us as the Love of God gazes upon us knowing that it is capable of man to keep His word and not see death. Today I get to start over to amend my actions knowing that I Am loved by Him. Do not underestimate the grace of God's love. Have a blessed day as we look back tonight and recount how many times we denied Him.
Dear Father, I thank You for the gaze that is upon me, the gaze of love that will amend my life. I see and feel the effects of sin on myself and upon society, yet You still Love. Watch over us this day and help us be faithful witnesses to this love as we strive against the effects of sin. The joy is knowing that You defeated sin and we are saved by that victory. I Am not the sum of my sins but I Am the sum of Your love. Help me amend my life, it is Your strength that courses through my veins today. In Jesus name, Amen.
Mary, Star of the Sea, Pray for us.
St Joesph, Model of Workers, Pray for us.
St Ignatius, Pray for us.
St Patrick, Pray for us.
Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4b
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