“He Has Not
Left Me Alone” by Melanie Rigney
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
and whenever anyone who had been bitten by the serpent looked at the bronze
serpent, he lived. (Numbers 21:9)
O Lord, hear my prayer, and let
my cry come to you. (Psalm 102:2)
“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will
realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the
Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,
because I always do what is pleasing to him.” (John 8:28-29)
Piety
Father, never leave me. Help me to
please You, and to believe You still love me when I don’t.
Study
They couldn’t hurt Jesus, not
really. Oh sure, they could plot against Him, denigrate Him, even kill His
physical body. But they couldn’t hurt Him, because He was doing the Father’s
work, and that spiritual armor would protect Him from anything.
That’s a gift God gives us too. We
may feel starved spiritually, not receiving the sacraments regularly. We may be
beset by worry about our physical or economic future or that of our loved ones,
our country, or the world at all. These are valid concerns; we’re living in a
very uncertain time without a playbook—other than Scripture and Sacred
Tradition.
But those are powerful playbooks.
Even more powerful is the knowledge in that quiet place in our souls that we
have not been left alone. And with that, no virus or quarantine or shortage can
hurt us, unless we let it.
Action
Do something that is pleasing to the
Father. Be creative.
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