Daily Inspiration

“Jesus said to his disciples: "You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” -Mark 5:43-48

In that place of eternal misery and regret, I learned there was but one enemy. As an adopted child of God, I understand that those who I once believed were my enemies are also His children, but the enemy influences them. They are souls who have not yet accepted God’s offer of adoption. As children of God, we are responsible for leading the lost souls to Christ.

Some saw Jesus as their enemy, but Jesus loved them all as if they were His own children. Imagine His joy if those who crucified Him had called out to Him like the Good Thief and asked Christ to remember them in the Kingdom.

And so it should be with us. Let us pray that each child cries out to their Father before their end. Let us work to help awaken all our brothers and sisters so that place of misery and regret remains forever empty, and no soul ever experiences the peril of losing God.  

Saints Mark and Marcellian, pray for us.

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Jesus, I trust in you!