April 7, 2014 Psalm
143
Monday 1 Kings 17:17-24
Acts
20:7-12
In
today’s reading, God sends the prophet Elijah to the woman of Zarephath who is facing famine and eventually the death
of her son. Often we feel that our spiritual life is under assault by today’s
society. It isn’t fashionable to go to church, to have faith in a higher power,
to put our future in God’s hands. It is the lack of faith that puts us in the
wilderness of unbelief. Yet God our Father is ever faithful and vigilant.
God provides the way out spoken of by Saint Paul. While the mother
had given up hope, just as we give up hope about the future of the church and
faith, we are assured that God our loving Father will send us a Redeemer who
will set us on the path of rebirth into a higher faith, a faith where our lives
are restored, our church finds its true mission, and we can live our lives as
the beacon of Christ. The “gentiles shall come to the light and kings to the
brightness” of our Lord’s rising. Christ is alive, our heart of faith, and we,
as God’s beloved children will inherit the life of Christ and live to prosper
and glorify our Savior just as the widow’s son was raised to the Glory of God
the Father. Praise be to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, for giving us the faith to
renew our lives to Thy holy service.
Franklyn Commisso
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