Daily reflection _ God's spirit is in our hearts

GOD'S SPIRIT IS IN OUR HEARTS
We have not broken the letter of the law and that should be enough, right? 
Deacon John Ruscheinsky
In the Letter to the Hebrews, we hear God will make a new kind of pact or covenant with the people, and we are to understand this as referring to the followers of Jesus Christ. The difficulty is that the Israelites of old broke the covenant. In this new period, God "will put [His] laws in their minds and [He} will write them upon their hearts" (Heb 8:10). The old Israel apparently observed the covenant simply as a set of laws, without a corresponding interior commitment. It seems to be a mistaken path we take in religion when we try to save ourselves. We have not broken the letter of the law and that should be enough, right? We then find we stay on the level of external matter only. What our heavenly Father asks of all of us is internal commitment to our part of the relationship in the covenant He made with us. This takes a commitment of prayer and reflection, and true discernment of our call from God. For God calls us to be genuine in our lives, and true in our relationship with Him and with others.
What is God's call on your life? When Jesus chose twelve men for the task of preaching the Good News for God's Kingdom, He choose very ordinary, simple people to do extraordinarily well in spreading God's Word, of healing, forgiveness, and of communicating His love. God takes ordinary people like us along with what we can offer and uses it for greatness.
In the responsorial psalm we acclaim, "Kindness and truth shall meet" (Ps 85:11). God will show us the way if we let Him in!