Easter Meditation

My Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Book 3 Chapter 30: On Asking the Divine Assistance and on Confidence of Recovering Grace

Christ tells us, “Come to Me when all is not well with you.”

Today, the last meditation for this Easter Season tells us to seek God needs and to ask Him for help.  Thomas a Kempis tells us that what keeps us from “receiving heavenly consolation is your slowness in turning to God in prayer.”  Oh how true a statement. You must have confidence to seek God and to ask Him for assistance.  You must realize that it is God alone who delivers.  When you approach God in prayer, be specific where you need assistance.  Do not be bashful to ask Him for things for nothing is impossible for God (Jeremiah 32:27).  God is not like humans who promise but do not always deliver.  God never abandons us and is always there to help us.  You must have courage and wait patiently for your comfort will come when you most need it, not necessarily when you most want it. You must realize that God answers every one of our questions, but they are answered on His time and within His plan for your salvation.  You must not worry about the future but trust in God that He will do what is necessary.  You should not worry about the future, for the future is not here.  “This anxiety about future events brings you nothing but grief and more grief.”  You should live in the moment because there are enough things that you must deal with now.  It is a waste of time and energy to worry about the future because only God knows what the future will bring.  How often do you daydream about the future to have those dreams crushed or the events never happen?  This diverts our focus on the present and is a tool of the Evil One to divert us from God.  Jesus tells us that we should have confidence in Him and to trust in His mercy.  He left us the Holy Spirit to live with us and to guide us.  When you think He is far away, He is actually closest to you.  Just because the things in your life do not go according to your plan, you must realize that they are going according to God’s.  Many times when you feel you are at rock bottom, you will find that great reward from God.  It was patience that allowed you to experience this great treasure. If you always have it your way, you will become “too elated with success and, through pride, imagine yourself to be what you really are not.”  When God gives you a treasure, it still belongs to Him.  When He takes it away from you, you must realize that it never belonged to you.  Sometimes He needs to take things away from us so we can grow in Him. “As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9).  If The Father loved Jesus enough to allow Him to suffer on the Cross, Jesus loves us enough to allow us to suffer with Him.  You are being sent into the world to spread the joy of the Gospels.  You will labor and experience sorrow.  Embrace the pain and suffering so you can become closure to Jesus Christ who died for us.

A Simple Prayer

Father, we are approaching the end of the Easter Season. 

Please send the fires of the Holy Spirit upon me so I can go forth and do your will.’

Give me the strength to endure the pain and suffering of spreading the Gospel

For it is You who will ultimately deliver me from this World into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Yours in Christ

Michael Marcon