#250 Tues. Mar.25/14, 10am. St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament (I call, you come)
I come to do Your Will O Lord.
May each person who hears these Words let them settle in their soul.
May they ponder them gently and ask the Lord to set your own will free to accept to do His Will.
But at first, just say the phrase in imitation of Jesus, “Lord, I come to do Your Will.”
Do you see the action here? I come – meaning you come, you the regular everyday person, with no title, no particular aim, just ‘to come’ to do Your Will.
By coming to the Lord we set our soul free to be in the Lord’s presence.
When we say “Not yet Lord”, “Later, I am busy right now” these do not answer His Call to come.
The action of ‘come’ has been instilled in us by His Asking, His Call.
We ‘come’ in response to the Lord’s ‘Call’. To ‘come’ aside to be in His Presence.
You may have thought you were coming by your own thought power, but, let Me tell you, your soul comes because I have called.
We cannot clap ourselves on the back because we ‘come’ to Jesus.
We can thank Him for His Continuing Calling of us, but when we ‘come’ it is not just on our own initiative – there has been planted in us the Call to Come before we act out and come to Him.
We are not the first to act. God the Father, the Creator, was the First to Act, is the First to Act, in ALL things.
Our coming to Him is our reaction to His Call to come to Him.
So we can never bother to take credit for what we may have thought was in our power.
He has the Power to Call.
He has the Power to instill in us to respond to His Call.
Thank God He has empowered us to respond to His Loving Call.
The great Bible example is Isaiah “Here I am Lord, to do your will.”
Only to realize that it was God who was calling, otherwise there would have been no need for a response.
So how often do you feel called to come aside and sit with Me?
I throw the invitation out there many times.
And it lands on many people, however, they may not be attuned to the fact that It is Me who is calling them.
When we realize who the Caller is, we are more likely to answer the Call.
But even then we have the free will to say “not right now Lord” or “Later Lord I have to do this first.”
As I have told you, I recognize your free will as a gift from the Father.
Yet only when you can come aside when I Call are you doing My Will.
When you come aside, when you have chosen the time and place convenient to you, you are following your will and I accept that.
Yet, if we say “I come Lord to do Your Will” – the first, very first thing needed is for you to come when I Call not when you decide.
That is the first act in doing My Will!
Do you understand what I mean?
Look at today and how you thought you would stay in chapel until 10a.m. (your will)
Then you got in here later than you had planned (willed) and now you are on ‘My Will’ for your time here.
Crazy, eh?
It really shows itself when I jump into your plans for the day, (even though you told Me in your waking prayers – I surrender myself to You) and sort of mess up what you had envisioned how your day would unfold.
Now you are doing My Will.
You had asked Me to give you the ache in your heart to come aside before the Blessed Sacrament and I have given you that.
However, sometimes you like to conform it to what you would like to do with your day.
So when My Will jumps into your day and sets things in another order, you can only be extremely thankful that I have heard your surrender prayer and am taking it to Heart.
So do you see how you have come aside to do My Will?
Remember I ‘ask’.
You ‘come’ aside in answer to My Asking (My Will).
So rest assured your coming aside in answer to My Will is doing My Will!
It is simple.
You would not ever think to come aside if I first had not Asked you to come aside.
So if you are sitting in chapel and you feel called to go to your knees and pray, that is in answer to My Ask, My Will.
I want you to see and realize that there are many times when I ask that you do answer, so be grateful, most grateful that you are doing My Will.
You have been seeking to do My Will. Now realize that when I call you to prayer, kindness, smile, generosity you are doing My Will. It is not yours!
When you feel angry, upset, down, I have not called you to this, so check with your heart and see who has called you to this --- who are you answering?
Go now, go in Grace. Carry Peace with you. Bless those you meet with our Blessed Mother “Mary bring them to Jesus.”
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