HE doesn't just want MY heart, he wants ALL our hearts! Very much! In Life in the Spirit's 3rd day of reflection, I am struck by this particular passage:
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you, says the LORD." Jeremiah 29:12-14
It's a little bit funny this, because on the way home in Las' car on Thursday night, I was saying that it might not be possible to find the Lord if you FORCE it, and that the Lord would instead find you if you open yourself to Him. In essence, what I was saying is that 'as long as we open ourselves to Him, God might show us his Light and Love'. But according to The Word, which IS Truth, and IS God ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning." John 1:1-2.), He invites us to seek Him, to find Him. With all our hearts, we are invited to actively find Him, not just sit passively with an open heart. The passage just above has put me back in my place, and shown me how little wisdom I have. I can see that John the Apostle and I are going to have a fantastic relationship throughout my time with LISS. I always wondered whose Gospel (witness of Christ) would be the one to whom I would feel closest to in my journey of faith, and I now realise it is John's, because everything he proclaims, my heart absorbs and rejoices with such fervent fire! This is not to say that I don't love all the Gospels, but for sure, my favourite and dearest is John's.
St. John the Apostle, I beseech you to pray that I, and everyone taking part in the LISS programme, search, seek and find God through His most divine Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, with all our hearts. You were so loved by our Lord, that He entrusted His Father's most favoured Lady, our Blessed Mother Mary, to your care, upon His dying breath. We thank you for the gift of your Gospel, so that we may come to know Christ in this special way of Scripture. Help us to seek Christ even more, through Eucharistic Adoration and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We ask this in the name of our Lord, Amen.
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