The Sixth Gift Of Christmas - He Restores My Soul

 The Sixth Gift Of Christmas - He Restores My Soul

 “Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8 NKJV

 The current coronavirus pandemic is a wake up call to confront the truth that we need to get back in touch with our loving Creator. In this dark time of human history we need to see the loving hand of God - to see God as our Divine Lover who is passionately pursuing us to be in relationship with Him as His beloved. This is the essence of the sixth beatitude - blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. But envy is a stone in our hearts that keeps our hearts from being purified.

We have the promise that our Shepherd of Love will lead us in the paths of righteousness and to restore our souls - to fill us with a desire to seek the abundant life of being God’s beloved. It is a journey from being perfectly imperfect to being imperfectly perfect. Envy keeps us from believing that God can turn us into saints. When we are reborn again we will cease from sin and to allow God to make a holy experiment of our lives.

Perhaps we can see the COVID 19 virus as God’s antidote for envy. When we trust that God is engineering our circumstances we can respond with a peaceful heart instead of a complaining and envious heart. We are reminded of how interdependent we are on one another and the need to care for one another. But most important of all, we remember our total dependence of God as we pray, “The Lord Provides” to heal us of our sins of pride and envy.