O God, Who teach us that You abide in hearts that are just and true, grant that we may be so fashioned by Your grace as to become a dwelling pleasing to You. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
O God, Who teach us – Think about all the ways in which God teaches us. We listen to His words in the Scriptures. We hear Him speaking through Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church. We feel the inspirations He places in our hearts as we pray. We sense that He is sending us messages through the people we meet and the events we experience. Indeed, God never leaves us without instruction; we have to learn to listen and obey.
You abide in hearts that are just and true – Here is one of the major truths that God teaches us. When we are in a state of grace, when we are just (that is, right with God thanks to His mercy and grace and our acceptance of them), when we are true to God's plan of salvation for us and to His idea for our lives, then He abides in our hearts. His indwelling presence remains with us. He is closer to us than we are to ourselves. He loves us and guides us and protects us from the inside out.
fashioned by Your grace – Do we allow God's grace to fashion us, to shape us and mold us into the people of love that He wants us to be? Or do we hinder His grace, putting up roadblocks of selfishness and pride, of hatred and indifference, of fear and anxiety?
become a dwelling pleasing to You – We must strive to make a comfortable, clean dwelling place for God in our souls, a place of warm love and close attention, a place of obedience and openness, a place of intimacy and connection that helps us grow closer and closer to our Lord. May God give us the grace, and may we always accept that grace, to turn out hearts and souls, our bodies, minds, and spirits into a place of communion with Him until we may see Him face to face in eternity.
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