And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that, in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe. (1 Thessalonians 2:13 NABRE)
Lord God, thank you for your Spirit within us, that we may recognize your Word at work in us. Saint John describes Jesus in the opening verse of his gospel in a very peculiar way. He writes, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
And by reading on, we come to understand that John refers to Jesus as the Word. Also, that he was with God the Father in the beginning, before time, before all things were even made. We believe that this person Jesus, who became a man, is actually God. And if we read on a few more lines in John's gospel, we read that it was through him that all things came to exist.
When we read the Word of God with an understanding that somehow, by his Spirit, the Lord makes himself available to us by these words written down by men, we find that through such a worldly resource, a deep, personal relationship with God is available to us.
Today, I will thank God unceasingly for reaching out to me and offering me a relationship with him.
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, about whom St. Vincent De Paul said, "She suffered such interior trials that she often told me her mind was so filled with all sorts of temptations and abominations that she had to strive not to look within herself,", pray for us.
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