“Wisdom speaks her own praises, in the midst of her people she glories in herself. She opens her mouth in the assembly of the Most High, she glories in herself in the presence of the Mighty One: I came forth from the mouth of the Most High and I covered the earth like mist. I had my tent in the heights and my throne was a pillar of cloud. I have spread my branches like a terebinth and my branches are glorious and graceful. Approach me, you who desire me and take your fill of my fruits, for memories of me are sweeter than honey, inheriting me is sweeter than the honeycomb. They who eat me will hunger for more; they who drink me will thirst for more. No one who obeys me will ever have to blush, no one who acts as I dictate will ever sin” {Sirach 24:1-4,16,19-22}.
When was the last time your words/write-ups/comments/gesticulations arouse the fear of God [“Let the Word of Christ in all its richness find a home with you. Teach each other and advise each other in all wisdom. With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God” Col.3:16] in your neighbor/friend? Hence bequeathing the wisdom and understanding of God to your personality (‘keep them, put them into practice and other peoples will admire your wisdom and prudence. Once they know what these laws are, they will exclaim, No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation!’ Deut.4:6) or is it all about promoting lust, devious thoughts, cheating tendency within the confines of you are sexy/horny/smart/subtle/ a diva e.t.c for your friends that are wearing nude/half-nude/transparent/skimpy/fitted clothes also for those very good at lying (Rev.21:8) to their wards in order to operate at levels that are beyond their normal lifestyle[“No foul word should ever cross your lips; let your words be for the improvement of others, as occasion offers and do good to your listeners” Eph.4:29].
When last did you allow yourself to be used, ridiculed and mocked by sin with a grave (‘all law-breaking is like a two-edged sword, the wounds it inflicts are beyond cure’ Sirach 21:3) wound (fornication, adultery, pornography, masturbation, indecency in dress/speech/profile pictures or downloads/thoughts, lesbianism, sugar mummy/daddy, incest [cousin-to-cousin/mother-to-son/father-to-daughter/sister-to-brother], bestiality [sex with animals], prostitution, homosexuality e.t.c) with intimidations/deceits like {stop behaving like a child, use what you have to get what you want, others are doing it}, unforgiving spirit, anger, backbiting, heresy, abortion, murder, stealing, lying, silence over another’s sinful lifestyle, rejection of the word of God, pride, idolatry, quarrelling, glutton, drunkenness, partying spirit, spite e.t.c. You are just denying the presence of God’s Spirit of wisdom within you (‘so if anyone declares himself for me in the presence of human beings, I will declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in heaven. But the one who disowns me in the presence of human beings, I will disown in the presence of my Father in heaven’ Mtt.10:32-33)
Are your ways under the shelter of the Most High? (‘He who dwells in the shelter of the most High and abides in the shade of the Almighty…’Ps.91:1-2) i.e
Your present relationship with same/opposite sex on what motive?
Your dress-code now, how many have thanked God for the wonder of his creation (Ps.139:14) or are you a sorry image of God [‘the Lord regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart’ Gen.6:6]?
The thoughts of your heart presently are they yearning for sin/wickedness (“the Lord saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long” Gen.6:5; ‘watch yourselves or your hearts will be coarsened by debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life and that day will come upon you unexpectedly like a trap. For it will come down on all those living on the face of the earth’ Lk.21:34-35) or the righteous touch of the Father {‘as a deer yearns for running streams so I yearn for you, my God’ Ps.42:1}?
When last did you feed spiritually on the Wisdom of God {GOD; ‘in the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God’ Jn.1:1} and the Body and Blood of Christ worthily (The Eucharistic Jesus; “Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you” Jn.6:53) or tried visiting HIM for a heart to heart chat [‘come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened and I will give you rest’ Mtt.11:28] because of your long absence from the sacrament of reconciliation under the self-deceit and incomplete understanding you harbor within your heart or deceitful oratory of some fellows that ‘you need not confess your sins to God through a priest’ yet the people he cured (Lk.17:11-19); who were tagged unclean by the words of Leviticus as it is contained in the mosaic law he instructed them to go and show themselves to the priest in order to complete the ritual cleansing hence after ordaining his apostles (Lk.22:19-20) and seeing the reaction of Judas who received his body unworthily did {Mtt.27:3-10}, Christ left us with the avenue of complete cleansing through his apostles (“after saying this he breathed on them and said: Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained” Jn.20:22-23) whose teachings and instructions are linked singularly to catholic priests {Mtt.16:18,Lk.22:28-30, Eph.2:20, 1 Cor.3:11}.
Feeding daily on the Body and Blood of Christ with the right frame of mind {1 Cor.11:26-27} makes one closer to God and reduces much of the desire to sin in man as well as creating personal time to chat with Him in the chapel especially after receiving Him authenticates righteousness consistently within mortals (“anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life and I shall raise that person up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink” Jn.6:54-55)
JESUS, THE INCARNATE WISDOM.
Make our hearts like unto Thine!!!
MARY, Seat of Wisdom.
Pray for us!!!
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