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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday in the Third Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 27 January 2023 Hebrews 10:32-39 ><0000'> + ><0000'> + ><0000'> Mark 4:26-34
Lord Jesus Christ, your words this last Friday of January 2023 are so lovely, so inspiring: "Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense. You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised" (Heb. 10:35-36).
What is to not throw away our confidence? Simply be assured always in God, with God. Have faith because he knows very well what is happening with each of us. Help us to keep that in mind and heart! Now, this is what I like, Lord Jesus, when the author of the Letter to the Hebrews told us to have "endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised." Teach us, Jesus, to bear and endure all pains in doing your will, in standing for what is true and good, in keeping on doing what is good, in continuing to love amid the pains.
Along with endurance, give us also perseverance, Lord Jesus: more than enduring the pains, let us go against all these difficulties and hardships to perfect ourselves, our faith and our love like you! Like the farmer in your parable, let us persevere, to keep on farming despite the rains and drought without really knowing if there would be bountiful harvest or not except in having that deep faith in God that whatever we plant, no matter small, would always grow and bloom. Amen.
