The Imitation of Christ ~ Thomas Kempis
Grace teaches, therefore, to restrain the senses, to avoid vain satisfaction and display, humbly to hide those things which are worthy of praise and admiration; and from everything, and in all one learns, to seek the fruit of utility, and the praise and honour of God. Grace does not desire itself or what belongs to it to be exalted; but wishes that God may be blessed in his gifts, who bestows all things purely out of love.
Our Father's greatness is revealed through His desire to love us, support us, and shepherd us through our life's journey of self discovery.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
~ Matthew 7:24
Our Father invites us to listen to His Word speaking to us, within our thoughts guiding us to do all that He asks, ensuring that our life is blessed with His practical assistance.
No matter how often we fail to follow Our Father's counselling, He will persist inviting us to return to His loving care, thereby proving to us that His love for us is for ever, and not a passing phase the result of our choice to ignore His advice leading us through our life's journey.
Lead, Kindly Light.
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:12-14
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