The Glory of God!
October 20, 2020
St. Paul of the Cross, Priest
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! I am with you for so long because God is great in His love and in my presence. I am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer. May the measure of your [way of] living be love and do not forget, little children, that prayer and fasting work miracles in you and around you. May everything you do be for the glory of God, and then Heaven will fill your heart with joy and you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live. Thank you for having responded to my call." September 25, 2020
“May everything you do be for the glory of God, and then Heaven will fill your heart with joy and you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live.”
What does this mean: May everything you do be for the Glory of God. I must say that I have lost track of this sentiment in my daily life! But doesn’t the Deacon say at the end of Holy Mass: “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.” Certainly, this work of glorifying the Lord is important, even central to our lives. How could I forget it?
It occurs to me that if I lived in such a way that everything I did was for the glory of the Lord, then I would be constantly aware that somehow my behavior was a proclamation and a demonstration of how Good and Great and Wonderful God is!! Each moment could become a moment lived in the awareness that God is with me, and I am with Him, and I have the opportunity in each moment to give God the praise and thanks He is due, through my actions, my words, my thoughts, my prayers, and my desires. I would no longer be a “lone ranger” operating on my own behalf in a world that only belongs to me. I would be already in Heaven in that I would be present to God as He is present to me.
Maybe that is why Our Lady continued in the message saying, “then Heaven will fill your heart with joy, and you will feel that God loves you…” Living in the desire to glorify God in everything would naturally bring me into His presence, since I would be offering everything to Him as a gift. And then, I would receive the joy of Heaven in return, the Love of God.
Well it sounds like a lovely way to live. Always living for the Glory of the Lord!!
Notice that the end of that sentence says: “you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live.” When our hearts are filled with heaven, we see things from a different perspective. We see God acting in our poor world. We see what He is doing. And what He is doing is amazing. He is saving us and our measly planet through the coming of Our Lady. This is her Triumph. This is her time. And we are called to help her, by living our lives for the Glory of the Lord!
“May everything you do be for the glory of God, and then Heaven will fill your heart with joy and you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live.”
Maybe we could start practicing this way of living today. Before we begin a task, while we are doing the task, at the end of the task, may we offer it for the Glory of the Lord! It will make our every moment deeply meaningful and sweetly humble!
In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2020
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