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It is not what we do that determines whether our work is sacred or secular, it is why we do it.
- A. W. Tozer (and others)
(Why do you do what you do? It is good to live with this question, as it can point us to God.)
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RV 14:1-3, 4B-5; PS 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6
LK 21:1-4
When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people
putting their offerings into the treasury
and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.
He said, "I tell you truly,
this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."
USCCB lectionary
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"I heard a sound from heaven." —Revelation 14:2
To be with the Lord forever in heaven, we must:
- decide to have the Lord's name written on our foreheads (Rv 14:1), that is, be baptized in His name and live our Baptisms fully and publicly,
- sing a new hymn before God's throne (Rv 14:3) as we worship Him "in Spirit and truth" (Jn 4:24),
- let the Lord ransom us from the world (Rv 14:3) and "have no love for the world, nor the things that the world affords" (1 Jn 2:15),
- be "pure and follow the Lamb wherever He goes" (Rv 14:4), and
- let the Holy Spirit purify our lives, hearts, and lips to make us holy (see Rv 14:5; Heb 12:14).
Specifically, to be with the Lord forever in heaven, we must give the Lord not only our surplus (see Lk 21:4), part of our lives, or most of our lives. Rather, we must give Him all our hearts, all our souls, all our strength, and all our minds (Lk 10:27).
Supernaturally, when the Holy Spirit graces us to believe that Jesus loves us so much that He died on the cross for us, then we respond in love and give ourselves totally to Him. We receive the new nature in which we live with the Lord forever (2 Cor 5:17). In love, give "all" to Jesus and live always with Jesus forever in heaven.
Prayer: Father, may I go to be with You in heaven as soon as You will it.
Promise: "Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain." —Ps 24:3-4
Presentation Ministries
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Abandonment to Divine Providence
- by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
CHAPTER II. THE DIVINE ACTION WORKS UNCEASINGLY FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF SOULS.
SECTION I.The Divine Action.
The divine action, although only visible to the eye of faith, is everywhere, and always present.
To be satisfied with the present moment is to delight in, and to adore the divine will in all that has to be done or suffered in all that succession of events that fill, as they pass, each present moment. Those souls that have this disposition adore God with redoubled love and respect in each consecutive humiliating condition; nothing can hide Him from the piercing eye of faith. The louder the senses proclaim that in this, or
that, there is no God; the more firmly do these souls clasp and embrace their “bundle of myrrh.” Nothing daunts them, nothing disgusts them.
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