A haughty look, a proud heart, And the plowing of the wicked are sin. Ps 21:4 Are these found in a child? Nay! The what about in us? Children of God our Father?
For the Lord our God gives His children more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6
When we lean in; Not into our own understanding or wisdom but seek His, our Heavenly Father’s Word and Will for us. Then we are truly Blessed children of God our Father. For what is entrusted to Jesus our Lord is entrusted to us by Him, to bring Heaven down for our brethren. Amen
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First reading
Isaiah 10:5-7,13-16 ·
Assyria’s arrogance and coming ruin
The Lord of hosts says this:
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger, the club brandished by me in my fury!
I sent him against a godless nation; I gave him commission against a people that provokes me, to pillage and to plunder freely
and to stamp down like the mud in the streets. But he did not intend this, his heart did not plan it so.
No, in his heart was to destroy,
to go on cutting nations to pieces without limit.
For he has said:
‘By the strength of my own arm I have done this and by my own intelligence, for understanding is mine; I have pushed back the frontiers of peoples and plundered their treasures.
I have brought their inhabitants down to the dust. As if they were a bird’s nest, my hand has seized
the riches of the peoples.
As people pick up deserted eggs
I have picked up the whole earth,
with not a wing fluttering, not a beak opening, not a chirp.’
Does the axe claim more credit than the man who wields it, or the saw more strength than the man who handles it?
It would be like the cudgel controlling the man who raises it,
or the club moving what is not made of wood!
And so the Lord of Hosts is going to send a wasting sickness on his stout warriors; beneath his plenty, a burning will burn like a consuming fire.
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Gospel
Matthew 11:25-27
You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’
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