Sunday, December 12, 2010

Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!

Your ways, O Lord, make known to me;

teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior. (Psalm 25:4)

The Word of the Lord is meant to teach us about God's love, to guide us in ways of holiness and to lead us to everlasting life.

How should we respond to the herald's cry, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord"—by following all the cleverly planned commercial strategies that drain our energy and trick us to feel bright and jolly?

How about following the path marked out for us by Holy Scripture through the Holy Spirit? It reveals to us that preparation for the way of the Lord means hiding our hearts in the desert, a place devoid of distraction where only the things essential for life are important.

Take time then to really enjoy the happiness that God becoming Man is meant to give us - read your Bible, go to a quiet interior desert place, and "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord."

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"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor:
the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy.

Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul.

If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy".