DAILY THOUGHTS: Daily Thoughts

Friday, June 2, 2023

Daily Thoughts - Make God Known

"They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. He did not permit anyone to carry anything through the temple area. Then he taught them saying, "Is it not written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples'? But you have made it a den of thieves."" ‭‭Mark‬ ‭11‬:‭15‬-‭17‬

I chose you from the world to go and bear fruit that will last says the Lord. John 15:16

Our time in the temple, when we go to worship and spend time with God, have we contemplated why? The money changers and those in charge were serving self, those that went, paid for the sacrifice so they could get, Jesus seen this as self serving and not of God.

His time in the temple was not to serve self but to worship His Father in Heaven. He knew as a man that it was His Father that would share with the son of man, the gift of everlasting life. He went to honor God the Father, to bow before Him as His Father so we could go and bear the fruit that brings back an offering of everlasting hope. He choses you to go and bear fruit not to go and rob from the temple and bring nothing back.

When Jesus hung on the cross He ushered the words "I thirst.", what He thirsted for was the fruit of the tree, the tree that took away salvation was to bring salvation back into humanity when He died upon it. What is that fruit that He thirsted for? Souls. That is the only fruit that satisfies our Triune God.

Consider your motivations when you go into the temple, and remember Jesus struck down the fig tree that produced no fruit. When we go we are to spend time adoring Him, not to get but to give what has been given.

Dear Jesus, it has been a fruitful morning, I thank You for sending us the Advocate so we may become more like you. I thank You for what is being brought about thru Your divine plan. In our finite wisdom, help us see our infirmities and help us become more like You, as we are bring united. I ask this in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Mary, Queen of Heaven, Pray for us.

St Joesph, Protector of the Holy Family, Pray for us.

St Patrick, Pray for us.