When we say “Here I am, Lord. I come to do Your will.” in Yesterday’s Psalm 40: 8-9, we may be blessed to take the next step in Today’s Psalm 50: 8-23 and remove more demons of confusion: “To the upright I will show the saving power of God.”
Only Catholics are blessed to realize: The opposite of “upright” is “downwrong”.
Catholics cure our “Confusion Headaches” by seeing what God did to King Saul! He was anointed by The Prophet Samuel to be the first King of Israel. He lost his Kingdom because he “cast God’s Words behind him”! Instead of obeying God’s Order to “put the Amalekites under a ban of destruction”, Saul let his soldiers keep “their best sheep and oxen for sacrifice” so they would not have to give God their own.
God had Samuel tell Saul, and every person on earth, regardless of the size of our “kingdom”: “Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission better than the fat of rams… Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, He, too, has rejected you as ruler.”
May we be blessed to ask ourselves God’s Question and see if we are “upright”: “Why do you recite my statutes, and profess My covenant with your mouth, though you hate discipline and cast My words behind you?”
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Catholics are the only people on earth in the past 2,000 years blessed to be so “upright” that we do not “cast” The Church-Creating Word of He Who Fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies “behind us”:
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Today’s Gospel from Mark 2:18-22 is a Prophecy of Jesus that comes true when decaying denominations disobey Jesus. “No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.”
Can anyone think of a better reason than what happened to Saul to “Be Catholic!” and drink the “new wine” of Christ’s Blood by God’s Miracle of Transubstantiation at every Catholic Communion in the “new wineskin” that is God’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church?
Everyone sees “the tear gets worse” in every once-Christian group between Germany and Minnesota that allows abortion, artificial birth control, easy divorce, frequent remarriages, and many other sins.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “God, we pray that we obey / And be blessed on Judgment Day.”
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