Letting God IN!!
(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J
November 20, 2014
Dear Family of Mary!
On
Facebook some people post pictures and stories from their past on
Thursdays. They call it "Throwback Thursday". Well here is a message
from 1989, a blessing from the early days of Medjugorje.
May
25, 1989 "Dear children! I invite you now to be open to God. See,
children, how nature is opening herself and is giving life and fruits.
In the same way I invite you to live with God and to surrender
completely to him. Children, I am with you and I want to introduce you
continuously to the joy of life. I desire that everyone may discover the
joy and love which can be found only in God and which only God can
give. God doesn't want anything from you only your surrender. Therefore,
children, decide seriously for God because everything else passes away.
Only God doesn't pass away. Pray to be able to discover the greatness
and joy of life which God gives you. Thank you for having responded to
my call."
Who can resist this message? Our Lady offers us such joy and hope! But she points out that we must "open to God"
if we are to receive that joy and hope from Him. She compares our souls
to nature. Just as nature opens to the sun, to the warmth of spring, so
our souls need to open to the Light of God and the warmth of His love,
if we are to bear fruit.
"I invite you to open to God."
This invitation suggests that somehow we must resist opening to God.
Why do we clam up when God comes around? What could possible keep us
from wanting to open our souls to Him? There are many reasons. We may
not know He is interested in us. We may not understand that He wants to
have a relationship with us. He may seem to be the disinterested clock
maker who winds us up and stands back to watch us tick.
Or
we may be afraid to open up to God. Maybe He is angry with us. Maybe He
wants to chastise us, correct us, and punish us? Maybe we distrust Him.
Is He really as good and merciful as we are told?
Maybe
we have wounds that make us unable to open up to God. Maybe we have
been shamed, betrayed, rejected, abused, abandoned, or mocked. We have
decided we will never open up to anyone again, including God. We want to
stay hidden safely inside, untouched and unharmed.
Maybe
we can't forgive ourselves, or others, or even God. Maybe we are
holding a grudge that keeps the doors of our soul tightly locked.
Or maybe we just don't want to be bothered. We have control of our life right now, and we don't want to let go of that control.
Our
Lady has called us to open to God in many messages, so it must be true
that we have trouble doing so. For many reasons we stay locked inside.
But if we remain locked within, we will not grow, we will not bear
fruit, we will become empty of true life. We cannot give ourselves life.
Only God can give us true life that flourishes.
And so Our Lady tells us, "...I invite you to live with God and to surrender completely to him".
She
wants us to live with God, and to trust Him so much that we give
everything over to Him, to His care and yes, His control! How foreign
this is to most of us. We have been hurt too many times by others who
have come into our lives and used us poorly. So trusting God is not
easy.
And so she tells us:
"Children, I am with you and I want to introduce you continuously to the
joy of life. I desire that everyone may discover the joy and love which
can be found only in God and which only God can give. God doesn't want
anything from you only your surrender. Therefore, children, decide
seriously for God because everything else passes away. Only God doesn't
pass away. Pray to be able to discover the greatness and joy of life
which God gives you."
Our
Lady is with us to help us let God into our lives. This is the only
life worth living, the life with God. This is the life that will
continue into eternity. This is the life that has no limit to joy and
love and all that is good. He will not hurt us, He only wants to love
us. But we have to trust Him and let Him come in.
May
we accept Our Lady's invitation to the continuous joy of living, by
letting Our God into our hearts, inviting Him in without fear, and
letting Him touch us!! All He needs is our surrender!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2014
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