Prayerful Realizations on a Holy Tuesday Evening
26 March 2024
God never withholds His persevering grace and strength for as long as I cling to Him. The Holy Spirit always gives me grace and strength in my testing times when I face trials and experience persecution and malicious humiliation.
And when those trials come, my human nature shouts the thing to do, and I easily ignore God’s soft prompting. I turn my back on Him because of pride and resentment, and all the more I stumble and fall in the ways of sin and darkness.
I submit myself to Jesus, and He walks with me in the light of His truth and love. By God’s grace and mercy, I follow Jesus in His way of the cross.
“Give me, O Lord, a steadfast heart which no unworthy thought can drag downwards; an unconquered heart which no tribulation can wear out; an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon me also, O Lord my God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. (Prayer of Thomas Aquinas) “
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