Holy Spirit of God help me seek to do your will, not mine...

 
John 5:16-30

 
Who knows the full will of God?  No human being on earth. Only Jesus sought perfectly to live into the perfect will of God –and was stretched on a cross for doing so, only to rise again on the third day. We do have indications of God’s will in holy scriptures, that is, in the B.I.B.L.E. –Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. “Come all you who thirst, Come to the living waters.” God said through Isaiah. “Seek the Lord while he can be found. Call upon him while he is near,“ counsels the Psalmist. “Seek first the Kingdom of heaven and his righteousness,” said Jesus, who also counsels us to “Come to me all you who labour and are heavy laden,” and “Do this in remembrance of me.” I realize that undoubtedly when I choose God’s way, that is Jesus’ way, of learning, loving, and living, I enter into the realm of the Holy Spirit of God, the holy place of forgiveness, mercy, courage, purity, faithfulness and all the facets of fulfilled being. So what am I seeking? Am I seeking to find ways to do my own will and then stamp it with “grace”?  Or will I, like Jesus at all times in his life, seek the will of God –by prayerful consideration of the Holy Writ and making a choice to walk with Jesus –and do it?  Holy Spirit of God help me seek to do your will, not mine.    
 
The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doing. The Lord is near to all who call on him in truth.   (Psalm 145: 17 & 18)
 
“Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive –to keep us alive to the grace of God.”
Saint Teresa of Kalcutta
 
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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