“Dear children! I desire to lead you, but you do not wish to listen to my messages. Today I am calling you to listen to the messages and then you will be able to live everything which God tells me to convey to you. Open yourselves to God and God will work through you and keep on giving you everything you need. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Thursday: The true disciple
Matthew 7:21-23
Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’
Cf. Rom. 2: 13
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Friday: Those who are of God will listen to his words
John 8:46-47
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 7He who is of God hears the words of God; the reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.
Cf. Ecclesiasticus 6:35
Saturday: Our Lady says to us all: “Do whatever my Son tells you.”
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Sunday: Listening to the apostles is listening to Jesus
Luke 10:16
“He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Monday: God is the teacher of all peoples
Psalm 94 (93):7-13
And they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise? He who teaches men knowledge, the LORD, knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O LORD, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Cf. Psalm 32 (3l):8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Tuesday: Those who are taught by God will come to Jesus
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.
Cf. Isaiah 54:13.
All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the prosperity of your sons.
Wednesday: Listening to and doing what the Word tells us
James 1:22-25
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing.