How the Lord cares for me!
Your kindness, O Lord, endures forever.
Forsake not the work of your hands.
---- mine,
Understand well that I, the Lord your God, have loved you with an all-encompassing and enduring love. You are always before Me. My gaze is always resting on you. I am aware of every breath you breathe, every heartbeat, every pulse beat. I know your thoughts I am aware of your fears, and I know all your strengths and weaknesses. I know you desire to love Me greatly but you often fall short. I know you do not make the kind of effort necessary to grow consistently in virtue. You are self-indulgent. Grace is available to you in abundance but you do not always use it, it lies dormant in you. It is up to you, ---- my own, to decide whether or not you wish to align your will more closely to My will and to live your life in a manner that is always pleasing to Me. Only you can decide how much you are willing to overcome the natural concupiscence that is the lot of all creatures and strive always to choose the things that bring life in its fullness. Only in the measure that you give will you receive - pressed down, shaken together, and running over but do you wish to receive all that I desire to give? Are you prepared to make the sacrifices that a life in the Spirit entails? It is up to you. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.
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