Gospel Mystery of the Day                 Monday, March 16, 2026
                                                                
Good Morning!      
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
 
Holy Spirit of God, teach me to trust you beyond any human being or device…
 
Jeremiah 17:5-10
When our lives are back-lit by the Sun of the Son of God, the features of humanity – that is our relationships and ‘contrivances’, the things of this world, are given perspective but become strangely dim by comparison.
 
As a human being who cannot possibly know or do everything alone, I look to trust someone and/or something every day of my life. The problem is that as a fallen person, when I trust fallen human beings or human ideologies, and do not see the Sun of the Son backlighting my life, I lose perspective, and my misplaced trust ‘falls’ apart. I can drift away from others, others can turn away from me or even against me, and ultimately every human relationship comes to an end in a world of grief. And human history clearly illustrates the fallibility of every human ideology, device, and invention under heaven.  
 
With his passion and death, illustrated by the Way of the Cross, and the Resurrection,  Christ Jesus modelled how trust in God works within, and beyond, a fallen world. Taunted by the very crowd who had days earlier praised him with waving palms, and abandoned by all but one of his twelve faithful followers, Jesus suffered the fickleness of human relationships. And it was the collusion of  ideologies, devices and inventions of the Roman the Jewish religious establishment and the Roman Empire that created such a tortuous end to the human life of the Son of God who was the Son of Man.  But Jesus kept his focus on God and trusted divine love beyond human fallacy, step by step as he moved through the waves of his ministry, his Passion and death – with all it’s fallen relationships and devices of suffering – in the light of the glory of his Father.
 
Only by trusting and living into the divine design of God beyond human existence can relationships be redeemed, and ideologies & inventions be able to sow love not hatred, peace not violence and life in the face of death. Will I choose human relationship and devices in the moment over the timeless might of God? Or will I, like Jesus, choose to trut God’s ways all my days? 
 
Holy Spirit of God, help me trust you beyond any human being or device. 
 
 
Blessed are those who trust in the lord, whose trust is the Lord.  (Jeremiah 17:7)
 
See Photo: Sun of the Son of God be the light of my life…

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Deut 26:16 – 19 & Matt 5:43-48
If prayer is the heart-pump that distributes the love of God throughout my ‘Be-ing’ then my mind, soul and strength are the muscles that, by contracting and extending, or steadfastly observing, the impulses of God, that are the ordinances of God. It is my mind, soul and strength (body) that keep my life actively engaged in the good it is designed to do. Each human being, each of us, is custom designed to love and be loved, but without aligning with, and then articulating, our ‘muscles’ to carry out love in action, our lives remain limp and fruitless. But by steadily observing God’s ordinances with my heart, mind, soul and strength we become the active, lively and fruitful persons we are meant to be. With my heart, the love-muscle actioned by prayer, I can love God’s ways more than any other ‘good’ of this world.  With my  mind, moved by the mercy of God, I am able to diligently focus on things that are pure, lovely, praiseworthy and reflective of God’s principles.  With my soul exercised as it should be, I can steadfastly keep my desires and needs in check to that I engage not the things of this world but the things of God – love, joy, peace, patience, fidelity, gentleness, hopefulness, generosity and self-control. And with my body, if I am steadfastly observing the laws of God, I will constantly and gratefully move eyes, ears, voice, hands and feet to the rhythms of my Father’s merciful, measured and magnificent Magnitude. This Lent, will I allow God to train the muscles of my Be-ing? Will I dedicate all that I am and have to exercise and follow through on the ways and will of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Father God, train my heart, mind, soul and strength to steadfastly observe your ordinances.  
 
Happy are those who seek the Lord with their whole heart. (Psalm 119: )
 
Wrestle for your own soul, especially in such days as these.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem circa 350 AD
 
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