2 Peter 1:5-11

DAILY INSPIRATION:  2 Peter12:5-11

2 Peter 1:5:11

5 So, strive with the greatest determination and increase your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with moderation, moderation with constancy, constancy with piety, 7 piety with mutual affection, mutual affection with charity. 8 If all these riches are in you so as to abound in you, you will not be idle and useless; you will rather be rooted in the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord. 9 Whoever is not aware of this is blind and shortsighted and is forgetful of the cleansing of former sins.

10 Therefore, brothers and sisters, strive more and more to respond to the call of God who chose you. If you do so, you will never stumble. 11 Moreover you will be generously granted entry to the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

My Beloved Jesus, thank You for speaking to me so clearly through these verses.  Thank You for the wisdom and insight they provide.  Strengthen my resolve to live a life that is always pleasing to You.  Grant that at the close of each day and at every rising to a new morning that I love You more than the day gone by.  I want to love because there is nothing more pleasing to You than if we imitate You in all things and since You love and You are love I too want to love and to be love to You and to everyone else.

Acts 5:34-42, Psalm 27:1, 4, 14, 14, John 6:1-15

Daily Holy Mass Readings:  Acts 5:34-42, Psalm 27:1, 4, 14, 14, John  6:1-15

Acts 5:34-42

 38 So, in this present case, I advise you to have nothing to do with these men. Leave them alone. If their project or activity is of human origin, it will destroy itself. 39 If, on the other hand, it is from God, you will not be able to destroy it and you may indeed find yourselves fighting against God.”

Beloved, sometimes I have a real sense of dread  when I think or speak about the enemies of Christianity and Christians because they hate You and consequently we are hated as well.  You are a constant, silent reporach to them in Your teaching, in Your witness to the love of the Father, to the laying down of Your life for all  humanity,  But I need not fear for as Gemaliel wisely says, they fight against and God and God is invincible.

May I never be afraid Beloved, to suffer for the sake of the Gospel.

Psalm 27:1, 4, 13, 14, 

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation

– whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the rampart of my life;

I will not be afraid.

4 One thing I ask of the Lord, one thing I seek –

that I may dwell in his house all the days of my life,

to gaze at his jewel and to visit his sanctuary.

13 I hope, I am sure,

 that I will see the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living.

14 Trust in the Lord, be strong and courageous

–       yes, put your hope in the Lord!

My Beloved You are all that the psalmist says and more and I long for all that the psalmist longs for and more.

John  6:1-15

My Beloved, You can take the the little scraps we have to offer and You can perform a miracle.  May I never doubt that I can always offer You my poor weak efforts to love and serve You and You will always ensure that the little I offer will be tunred into abundance.  May I be ready to sit down and wait expectantly for Your generosity in feeding me for I know that You will never disappoint me.  When You give the supply never runs out but there will always be enough and more left over. Thank You Beloved for always exceeding the capacity of our desire.