Thursday, October 17, 2013
Vigilance
Dear Friends,
A reading from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians (5:1-11):
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation. For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him. Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
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We had another beautiful day yesterday but it became cloudy last evening and we will have some rain today. However, I thank the Lord for the beautiful days that He has given us.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Savior given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“Be vigilant, My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who await My coming at the end of the world. You do not know when it will be so you have to be ready at all time. I will come as a thief in the night. So be ready to receive Me when I come. If you stay united to Me then you will have no reason to be alarmed. You will be on My right and I will take you with Me to heaven. I call you to put on the breastplate, which is faith and love. Make sure you have the helmet on for this is hope for salvation. I call you all to encourage each other and to pray regularly so that you will be ready when I come. Too many people today live in darkness and follow the wrong way, and if they continue this way they will not be saved. Do not follow them but live in My light and you will be in heaven one day. I bless you all.”
Father Melvin