TODAYS REFLECTION, JULY 16. (Is 10:5-7, 13b-16, Mt 11:25-27). Jesus prayer in the gospel contains a warning that pride can keep us from the love and knowledge of God. The things that make us ignorant and blind to the things of God are certainly intellectual pride, coldness of heart, and stubbornness of will shut out God and his kingdom of peace, joy, and righteousness. Pride is the root of all vice and the strongest influence propelling us to sin. Jesus contrasts intellectual pride with child-like simplicity and humility. The simple of heart are like infants in the sense that they see purely without pretense and acknowledge their dependence and trust in the one who is greater, wiser, and more trustworthy. They seek one thing - the summum bonum or greatest good, who is God himself. Simplicity of heart is wedded with humility, the queen of virtues, because humility inclines the heart towards grace and truth. In Jesus we see the perfect love of God - a God who cares intensely and who yearns over men and women, loving them to the point of laying down his life for them upon the Cross. Jesus is the perfect revelation of God - a God who loves us completely, unconditionally, and perfectly. Jesus also promises that God the Father will hear our prayers when we pray in his name. May we approach him always with joy and confidence. GUD MORNING
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:14:35 +0000
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