Water Seeks the Lowest Places

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Water Seeks the Lowest Places

And that was the end of His message.

And I was thinking, yes, we really need Your help because that pride is something else again. Getting rid of that-you know I grew up in the city in Chicago and- I was the only Gen- Just about the only Gentile in a totally Jewish high school, and it did not go well for me, but no, I thought, 'Well, I will live up to it, I will just pretend, pretend to be, you know, super intelligent and everything else. And so, that got me started on a way of life that was really, you know, very prideful. And it was not until my second Christian conversion that I recognized humility is the most important virtue a person can have and protect you from so many things. And God resists the proud. He resists the proud, but He rushes to the side of the humble. So, that is something we need to cultivate, guys. I need it too, so pray for us, please.

Thank you for being on the channel, we love you and we pray for you daily. And I hope that these messages are really helping to touch your heart to prepare you for your wedding gown. In Jesus' name, Amen.

That is what He told me I was supposed to do, to prepare the bride for the wedding.

And here is a beautiful quote from the "Imitation of Mary," which is a great book, because it really illuminates the fact that Jesus is the King and Prince of all things, she really illuminates that because she is constantly talking about ways to please Him, ways that we can humble ourselves, and here is just one quote from this book:

And this "Imitation of Mary" is published by the Catholic Book Publishing Company because there is two of them but that is the one that is really good. It is by Alexander De Rouville.

Ok. This is what she - she prays:

Lord, You are everything, and I am nothing.

You possess all things.

My only inheritance is my wretchedness.

You can do all things, and I can do nothing without Your help.

And here is a Litany of Humility which is very helpful for me so I can recognize the areas where I am very prideful, and my buttons:

O Jesus, meek and humble of heart,

Hear me.

From the desire of being esteemed,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the desire of being loved,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the desire of being extolled,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being honored,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being praised,

Deliver me.

From the desire of being preferred to others,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the desire of being consulted,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being approved,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being humiliated,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the fear of being despised,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the fear of suffering rebukes,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the fear of being calumniated, which means gossips and people tell bad stories about you.

Deliver me, O Jesus.

From the fear of being forgotten,

Deliver me.

And I will just read off the other ones really quickly.

From the fear of being ridiculed,

From the fear of being wronged,

From the fear of being suspected,

Deliver me, O Jesus.

That others may be loved more than I,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase, and I may decrease,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be chosen, and I set aside,

That others may be praised, and I go unnoticed,

That others may be preferred to me in everything,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

And that others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

And the last note on this litany is:

Charity is patient, kind, charity does not envy, is not pretentious, is not puffed up, is not ambitious or self-seeking, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice over wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, bears with all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

To have Charity is to love God above all things for Himself and be ready to renounce all created things rather than offend Him by serious sin. Amen.

And that is taken from Matthew 22:36 and hopes all things, endures all things, is First Corinthians 13:4-7.

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