Daily Inspiration

“When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” -Matthew 22:34-40
 
This kind of love does not come easily or without much effort on our part. We would never be capable of giving Our Lord the love He deserves on our own. In time and through persistence, our prayer, meditation, and self-denial create openings that allow Christ's divine love to penetrate our souls.
 
Those steps we take toward God jostle us, cracking the scale of sin we’ve allowed to encase our souls over time. Christ penetrates through the newly formed fissures and pours His love into us. Only through His grace can we offer God the love He deserves.
 
Once God's love resides within us, it transforms our very being. We become aware that He loves each of us as if we are the only other in all of creation. If the Lord loves your neighbor in such a way, and His love lives within you, how then could you not love your neighbor as yourself?  
 
“It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” -Galatians 2:20
 
Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.
 
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Jesus, I trust in you.