Meditation of the day...IMITATION OF CHRIST...

The Twenty-Third Chapter
Four Things Which Bring Great Peace (part one)


The Voice of Christ:

MY CHILD, I will teach you now the way of peace and true liberty.

1. Seek, child, to do the will of others rather than your own.

2. Always choose to have less rather than more.

3. Look always for the last place and seek to be beneath all others.

4. Always wish and pray that the will of God be fully carried out in you.

Behold, such will enter into the realm of peace and rest.

The Disciple:

O Lord, this brief discourse of Yours contains much perfection. It is short in words but full of meaning and abounding in fruit. Certainly if I could only keep it faithfully, I should not be so easily disturbed. For as often as I find myself troubled and dejected, I find that I have departed from this teaching. But You Who can do all things, and Who always love what is for my soul’s welfare, give me increase of grace that I may keep Your words and accomplish my salvation.

Oh Lord, I am ashamed of my worldliness. Please help me better grasp and obtain the advice given. Help me to:

1. Seek to do the will of others rather than my own.
2. Always choose to have less rather than more.
3. Look always for the last place and seek to be beneath all others.
4. Always wish and pray that the will of God be fully carried out.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+