Holy Ghost, engrave Thy law in our hearts.
In Jeremiah 31, God says that He is going to make a new covenant with His people. It will not be like the old covenant that they have broken. Rather, in the new covenant, God explains, “I will put My law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts.” In the new covenant, the people will know God in a different way, from the inside out.
We are living in this new covenant, and it is the Holy Spirit Who enters into us, engraving the law of God, the law of love, in our hearts. The old covenant set forth God’s law, but it did not provide the grace people needed to fulfill it. The new covenant gives us both the law and the grace to fulfill it. The law is no longer external, something to gaze at and try to live up to as best we can. Rather, it is within us, in our minds and hearts, because God is within us, giving us the strength we need to embrace His will.
Holy Ghost, inflame us with the fire of Thy Love.
On Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled the place where the apostles were gathered with the noise of “the rush of a mighty wind.” Then “tongues as of fire” rested on each one of them, and suddenly their fear was gone (see Acts 2). They begin to speak in different languages, and they hurried right outside to proclaim the Gospel to all those gathered in Jerusalem for the feast.
The apostles were on fire with the Holy Spirit. The appearance of flames over their heads was symbolic of the fire burning in their souls, a fire that burst out in love for God and for the people they hurried to evangelize. The Holy Spirit can inflame us with that same love. He wants to set us on fire so that we may pour ourselves out to God and for others.
Holy Ghost, open to us the treasures of Thy graces.
Do we realize how much God wants to pour out His love for us? Do we understand the graces He has reserved for us? Do we know that He longs to give us everything we need for our salvation? God has a treasure house of graces for us, a treasure house of love, a treasure house of joy and peace.
Jesus tells us to store up our treasures in Heaven (Matthew 6:19), but we should also realize that God gives us all these treasures and then some. When we have God, we have everything.
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