Father God, I lift up my soul to you…

 
Gospel Mystery of the Day                              Monday, May 31, 2021
                                                                  
Good Morning!      
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
 
Psalm 33 & Romans 8:14-17
Father God, I lift up my soul to you…  
 
Whenever I become bedazzled or befuddled or consumed in any way with any agenda or issue, I am lifting up my soul to that entity. Both King David the writer of Psalm 33 and St. Paul the writer of the letter to the Romans had lifted up their souls to a string of  false judgments, witnesses, accusers, teachers, reports, oaths to the extent that each became murderers of law-abiding citizens. Both well knew how death-dealing such ‘sin’ (separation from God) could be. But both of these important figures of our Judeo-Christian faith, also came to a point of conversion where they turned back to God, and began to lift up their lives – their heads, their eyes, their hands, their cries, their voices, their prayers, and their very souls only to the Lord God, so that both, by the end of their days died as saints aligned to God their Father. To what  - or to whom- am I lifting up my soul? Father God, I lift up my soul to you. Holy Spirit of God, help us lift up our souls to you.  
 
Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and shield. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. (Psalm 33:20-22)
 
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C.S. Lewis  
                       
Soli ad gloriam
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