God lives and works today, but it's not
the rich people who can experience and testify
to this the best.
No, for some strange reason, it has always
been the poor, the people who have come
off badly in life.
To them belong God's entire love and treasures.
Isn't that a comfort?
Each one of us is included.
God wants to give, to pour out His
love and gifts on us.
Listen to the following meditation by Basilia Schlenk
about this.
God is love, love that gives.
We see the greatest evidence of this love
in that He gave us the most precious
gift He had, His beloved Son, Jesus.
God the Father tore Jesus from His heart
and sent Him to us, as we read
in John 3.16. For God so loved
the world that He gave His only Son.
Loving Father, loving Father, Father of everlasting
love, eternal love.
It's overwhelming.
We have a God who always wants to
give.
He was willing to give everything, even His
dearest Son.
Just think, we have a God who actually
commands us to ask for things.
He wants to give to us and to
shower us with goodness.
It's inconceivable.
But on the other hand, we can cause
God the greatest grief imaginable when we don't
come to accept His gifts.
Suppose you've thought up a wonderful surprise for
someone you love.
Then you ask him to come by and
receive his present, but he never comes.
Surely we don't want to do this to
our Lord, leaving Him outside of our hearts
with all of His gifts.
Let's come to Him with our entire poverty.
Let's rejoice when we are poor or in
need of something.
For then the Father will look upon us
and say, It is my life to be
able to bring joy to my children and
to give them presents.
I have everything, and I can give you
everything.
As Jesus told us in the Sermon on
the Mount, we must really hunger and thirst
for Him and His gifts.
Those who are full and satisfied can't receive
anything.
And surely we would never forgive ourselves if
God prepared good gifts for us, and we
were too satisfied and apathetic to accept His
gifts.
Therefore ask much and expect much of your
Father in Heaven, and you will become one
who is richly bestowed.
Heavenly Father, I am Thy child, Is there
better to be found Than such loving union?
Oh, how blessed to be with Thee, Day
and night secure to be By Thy love
surrounded.
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