Thursday -- Genesis 17:3-9:

God makes Abraham “exceedingly fertile.” If you are a parent, look at old baby pictures marveling at the wonder of your calling as parent. If you are not a parent, let the Lord show you ways you, too, have given birth to a new manifestation of God in the world: through someone you’ve ministered to or through some work you’ve accomplished.

“Keep My Word”:

In today’s Gospel, Jesus assures us that we will enjoy eternal life if we “keep His Word.” Ponder on the inseparable realities of keeping God’s Word and enjoying eternal life. What are your main challenges of nurturing and living the Gospel in your daily life?

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God assents more when called on by ourselves than by others; and he often delays the giving, not from the wish that we should be utterly perplexed, nor to send us out with empty hands, but in order that he may become the author of greater good things to us.

- Saint John Chrysostom