Teach me your paths, my God,
make me walk in your truth. PS 24:4, 5
EZEKIEL 37:1-14
My Soul's Beloved,
My glorious God, You know all things, You bring life where once there was only death. You are the Eternal Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit that is infused in the Word made Flesh and who dwelt among us, can do all things. By the power of Your passion, death, and glorious resurrection and ascension into heaven, Lord, You have the power to heal, restore, and make all things new.
The dry bones of our lives, our spiritless and listless existence, You can transform with just a Word. You can breathe life into what is seemingly dead and You can raise to life, a life of abundance for Your love O Lord, and the giver of life is able, with just a Word, to make new, to refresh, and make fruitful where once there was only death and decay.
For You, O Lord my God, nothing is impossible. I believe and believing, I rejoice.
‘Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man. Say to the breath, “The Lord says this: Come from the four winds, breath; breathe on these dead; let them live!”’ I prophesied as he had ordered me, and the breath entered them; they came to life again and stood up on their feet, a great, an immense army.
“The Lord says this: I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel. And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people. And I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I shall resettle you on your own soil; and you will know that I, the Lord, have said and done this – it is the Lord who speaks.”
PSALM 106(107):2-9
O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love has no end.
Let them say this, the Lord’s redeemed,
whom he redeemed from the hand of the foe
and gathered from far-off lands,
from east and west, north and south.
PSALM 106(107):2-9
O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love has no end.
Let them say this, the Lord’s redeemed,
whom he redeemed from the hand of the foe
and gathered from far-off lands,
from east and west, north and south.
Some wandered in the desert, in the wilderness,
finding no way to a city they could dwell in.
Hungry they were and thirsty;
their soul was fainting within them.
Then they cried to the Lord in their need
and he rescued them from their distress
and he led them along the right way,
to reach a city they could dwell in.
Let them thank the Lord for his love,
for the wonders he does for men:
for he satisfies the thirsty soul;
he fills the hungry with good things.
finding no way to a city they could dwell in.
Hungry they were and thirsty;
their soul was fainting within them.
Then they cried to the Lord in their need
and he rescued them from their distress
and he led them along the right way,
to reach a city they could dwell in.
Let them thank the Lord for his love,
for the wonders he does for men:
for he satisfies the thirsty soul;
he fills the hungry with good things.
O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love has no end.
MATTHEW 22:34-40
My Soul's Beloved,
MATTHEW 22:34-40
My Soul's Beloved,
The world has made a parody of the commandments of love. It has reversed the right order for which God created us and in doing so we have handed it to the power of evil, darkness, decay, destruction, and death. Willful and woeful ignorance of God the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Sanctifier of the world has brought us to the very brink of hell. We are teetering over the edge and we are in imminent danger of keeling over into the very pit of hades where the fire never goes out and the worms do not die.
The Pharisees and the Sadducees of this world reign and control much of the large majority of people with lies, slander, blasphemy, and pandering to the basest of desires in human beings. Lord Jesus, the human spirit when ordered to God can live in heaven while still on earth. You have paid the price of our redemption. We are no longer slaves but free and in this complete and wondrous freedom, we have the power to choose life or death. To walk with God and the angels or to turn our gaze inward on ourselves and shrivel and die.
True love, the love which God has demonstrated, the love of God that became incarnate, is saving love, redeeming love, sanctifying love, fruitful love. Almighty, eternal God grant us wisdom to love as You love and we will live an abundant life filled with grace and truth.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’
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