Be vigilant. How does one's resolve get strengthened if prayer always produces consolation. Prayer is more than the reward or lack of that one receives. Prayer is our love language with God. How does one stay married if all we are ever after is the reward. Just like marriage we must push thru those periods that do not produce what we desire thru consistency. God is so much more than what we believe Him to be.
Daily Thoughts - Make God Known
2733 Another temptation, to which presumption opens the gate, is acedia. The spiritual writers understand by this a form of depression due to lax ascetical practice, decreasing vigilance, carelessness of heart. "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."21 The greater the height, the harder the fall. Painful as discouragement is, it is the reverse of presumption. The humble are not surprised by their distress; it leads them to trust more, to hold fast in constancy.
Jacob in todays reading has a dream that tells him that God will protect him and watch over him. He awakes the next morning with a new zeal for the Holy place he slept at. Then he makes a commitment to God that begins with "if". It gives us insight to the shallowness of Jacobs commitment to God.
Is it the bread and comfort we are after or is it God who is all knowing and all powerful we seek. Trust Him in all seasons and look with the heart.
Dear Father, there is so much more that goes beyond the understanding of our brain. Help us look with the heart to see the reality of our own situations in our prayer lives. Bless this day Father and may I be obedient to Your commitment of getting me to Heaven. Love Your son.
Mary, Queen of Heaven, Pray for us.
St Joesph, 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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