Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Wednesday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time
Jesus is Coming- Look Busy!
Do not fear. I will be with you in this great work. But, be careful, because the Evil One is active. Only unceasing labor can remove this negligence in doing good. (Jesus) (May 1962)
Today’s Readings: On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked,
so as not to burden any of you.
Not that we do not have the right.
Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you,
so that you might imitate us.
In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that
if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. (2 Thessalonians 3)
Prayer Meditation- Lord at the time that St. Paul wrote his letter to the Thessalonians everyone expected Your Return in Glory to be any day and some to the point where they stopped working and just waited for You to come! And yet St. Paul set the example by working hard to earn his keep even while preaching the Gospel. Today, there are many prophetic rumblings and many of us are wondering about these times which are dire indeed and could well be the times prophesied about in the Bible. And yet, Lord it is not Your Will that You would have us standing around looking at the sky or worried and anxious about what may be coming when You could ask us for our own life today. What is Your Will for us- it is our correspondence to Your Grace and surrender to Your Will in the everyday hum drum life that we all get to live. To find us watchful but busy and faithful to our vocations- the faithful and wise steward whom You have set over our households (Luke 12). Lord every day is a gift- let us give it back to You each day having spent it in Your Divine Will and not in endless speculation and fear.
