Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me align the purpose of my heart with yours...

 
John 5:19-30

 
Why did Jesus do it?  He could have gone back to Galilee and prolonged his productive ministry.  Even if he had celebrated Passover in Jerusalem that year he could have slipped away as he had several times before when the authorities were out to get him.  Instead, Jesus stayed at Jerusalem and hung around in his favorite place in the olive orchard where Judas and the temple guard would be sure to find him. Why?  Weeks before Jesus told his disciples the deep purpose of his life, to do the will of his Father in heaven. Like his step father Joseph and his mother Mary before him, Jesus listened to his Father’s will, and did it. But more than merely human obedience compelled Jesus to live into his Passion and to die upon a cross for our salvation: .As the Son of God who was the Son of Man, Christ Jesus took up his cross and on purpose carried it to his own crucifixion to proclaim once and for all that human beings are designed to become beloved sons and daughters of our heavenly Father – and so are designed to do God’s will just as Jesus did.  Is my life too purpose-full of the agendas of the world, the flesh and the devil? Or is it perhaps too purpose-less having given up on faith to inform me of God’s Love and Mercy directed at me?  Or will I, like Christ Jesus align my thoughts, words, and actions so uncompromisingly to the will of  God that I , like Christ, simply
“trust and obey’ the will of Father God? Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus, align the purpose of my heart with yours. 
 
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)
 
The Spirit comes gently and makes himself known by his fragrance.  He is not felt as a burden because God is light, very light.  Rays of light and knowledge stream before him as the Spirit approaches.  The Spirit comes with the tenderness of a true friend to save, to heal, to teach, to counsel, to strengthen and console
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
 
A Blessed, Holy and Happy Easter season to you and your family. May you evermore align your heart
with the will of God, as Jesus did!  
Allelulia! Even when all looked like death, it was really Life!  Alleluia!  Alleluia!
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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