Everyone cannot use one kind of spiritual exercise, but one is
more useful for this person, another for that; in the time of temptation, we
have need of some and of others in time of peace and quietness. (CIoC)
S A Yes, if God should give punishment and stripes, it ought to be a matter of thankfulness; because He always does so for our welfare, whatever He permits to happen to us. (CIoC) God likes to take “the lemons in our lives” and make lemonade yet sometimes He does need to discipline us because He loves us and He knows more about us than we know about ourselves and He wants the best for us. Contemplate on how Jesus handled Peter when he cut off the guard’s ear at His arrest and His reconciliation with Peter. What can you learn from Peter’s experience that will help you in your life now? You can discover this story in the biographies of Christ written by Sa...
Therefore, we should carefully prepare ourselves at holy times, and live more devoutly, and keep more exactly all things that we are to observe, as though we will shortly, at God’s hands, receive the reward of our labours.
ReplyDelete“Blessed is that servant (says Saint Luke 12:43) whom his Lord, when He comes shall find watching: Verily, I say unto you, He shall make him ruler over all His goods.”
(CIoC)