Deuteronomy 32:4, 39, Exodus 24:-8, Matthew 13:24-30, Psalm 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15

Daily Meditation:  Deuteronomy 32:4, 39

Deuteronomy 32:4, 39

4 He is the Rock,

and perfect are all his works,

just are all his ways.

A faithful God he is,

upright and just and unerring.

39 Learn this now – that I alone am He; there is no god besides me.

It is I who give both death and life;

it is I who wound and heal as well

and out of my hand no one can deliver.

In both these verses my Beloved, I read of two descriptions of You.  One is that You are just, perfect, faithful, unerring in Your judgements.  And the other tells me that You alone are God there is no other.  From You comes both life and death.  You strike and You heal and no one can take anything that belongs to You.  If we understand who You truly are Beloved, we need fear nothing, for everything that You give us whether pain or sorrow, heart break or loss, You are also the Giver of abundance.  When we are open and yielding to Your will, we have peace in the midst of distress, and plenty in the midst of hunger.  We experience joy in all circumstances when we accept and believe that everything we receive comes from You and has a purpose.  You are not capricious but loving and trustworthy.  Thank You.

Daily Mass Readings:  Exodus 24:-8,  Matthew 13:24-30, 

                                       Psalm 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15

Exodus 24:3-8

Beloved, You sealed Your Covenant in the Old Testament with the blood of bullocks offered by the young sons of the men of Israel.  In the New Covenant the First Born Son of the Loving God seals us in His own precious Blood.  We are purchased with the Blood of the Lamb - we are made whiter are purified, sanctified and made whiter than snow.  Thank You my Lord for this Covenant sealed in Your Blood, which makes us children of the Most High God, through the power of Your Most Holy Spirit.

Matthew 13:24-30 

Beloved, You are the Seed, the Eternal Word that has been sown in our hearts at Baptism and You continue to sow Your seed as we grow and mature in the Spirit, through  grace channelled to our souls, through the Sacraments.  But we live in a world that is full of temptation and we are weak with the sin of our first parents so we are prone to the sins of the flesh. The work of the evil one is to deceive us into accepting and believing the philosophy of the world, calling good evil and evil good.  A constant battle is being waged on us.  If we are not watchful, if we are not in the habit of  receiving the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist which heal, cleanse, and strengthen.  We will be in danger of being cut down like darnell and thrown into the eternal flames that neither consume nor destroy but burns without ever going out.  May we always walk in the shadow of Your Love and Presence.

Psalm 50:1-2, 5-6, 14

1 The God of gods, the Lord has spoken,

he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

2 God has shone from Zion, perfect in beauty.

5 “Gather before me my faithful ones,

who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

6 The heavens will proclaim his sentence,

for God himself is the judge.

15 Call on me in time of calamity;

I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”