John 17:11b-19
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for those who are preparing for ordination into the priesthood.
Can you imagine Jesus praying these words for you today? He is.
I try my best to ask, "Lord, what is Your will?" Often times, it's when I'm sitting at a crossroads at something that seems "very" important at the time, but given time, it seems "mildly" or even "trivially" important.
Now, looking at my life, Christ is answering my prayers with His own, and it's not in regards to the "mildly" important but the things that are everlasting.
"Let it be done unto me according to Thy word." Take care and God Bless.
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