Lord, I renounce my desire for human praise, for the approval of my peers, the need for public recognition. I deliberately
put these aside today, content to hear you whisper, "Well done, my faithful servant." Amen
- Anonymous
(To be free of the need for approval from others . . . let us pray. )
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1 JN 3:7-10; PS 98:1, 7-8, 9
JN 1:35-42
John was standing with two of his disciples,
and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said,
"Behold, the Lamb of God."
The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.
Jesus
turned and saw them following him and said to them,
"What are you looking for?"
They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher),
"where are you staying?"
He said to them, "Come, and you will see."
So they went and saw where he was staying,
and they stayed with him that day.
It was about four in the afternoon.
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter,
was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.
He first found his own brother Simon and told him,
"We
have found the Messiah," which is translated Christ.
Then he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said,
"You are Simon the son of John;
you will be called Cephas," which is translated Peter.
Reflection on the
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In the Gospel, John provides us with a real
life example of how this works. Two of John the Baptist’s disciples left him to follow Jesus. Jesus undoubtedly knew of their sins and shortcomings, yet he welcomed them with open arms. They simply had to believe that Jesus was the Messiah and follow him. With the Holy Spirit living within us, it really should be no different for us than it was for Andrew & Simon Peter that day with Jesus. It is possible to keep our focus upon Jesus and to live our lives according to
His holy example.
- by Larry Hopp Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 45
“All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are comprehended in these two
judgments”
And thus in all the Beholding methought it was needful to see and to know that we are sinners, and do many evils that we ought to leave, and leave many good deeds undone that we ought to do: wherefore we deserve pain and wrath. And notwithstanding all this, I saw soothfastly that our Lord was never wroth, nor ever shall be. For He is God: Good, Life, Truth, Love, Peace; His Clarity and His Unity suffereth Him not to be wroth. For I saw truly that it is
against the property of His Might to be wroth, and against the property of His Wisdom, and against the property of His Goodness. God is the Goodness that may not be wroth, for He is not [other] but Goodness: our soul is oned to Him, unchangeable Goodness, and between God and our soul is neither wrath nor forgiveness in His sight. For our soul is so fully oned to God of His own Goodness that between God and our soul may be right nought.
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