GOD FORMS YOUR TONGUE AND EYES AND EARS

He forms men's tongues and eyes and ears, and imparts to them and understanding heart. With wisdom and knowledge he fills them; good and evil he shows them. He looks with favor upon their hearts, and shows them his glorious works. That they may describe the wonders of his deeds and praise his holy name. - Sirach 17:5-8

How many sins have entered into the soul through the eye as Holy Scripture indicates? - 1 John. 2:16.

Guard your eyes that they may not look upon anything contrary to purity; your ears, that they may not listen to evil conversation; your mind, by banishing from it all suggestive thoughts; your heart, by stifling impure desires at their very birth. -- St. John Baptist de la Salle

That is why they must fast by keeping them lowered and not permitting them to look upon frivolous and unlawful objects; the ears, by depriving them of listening to vain talk which serves only to fill the mind with worldly images; the tongue, in not speaking idle words and those which savor of the world or the things of the world. We ought also to cut off useless thoughts, as well as vain memories and superfluous appetites and desires of our will. In short, we ought to hold in check all those things which keep us from loving or tending to the Sovereign Good. -- St. Francis de Sales

The Lord God has opened my Ear

Any word that comes out from the tongue that is given by the Lord must always be words of encouragement and not discouragement.

Scriptures:

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. -- Isaiah 50:4

God wakens your ear each morning so that you may learn from Him. He opens your ear to listen to Him and not to yourself so that you can move forward.

Scriptures:

Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward. -- Isaiah 50:4-5

People can stab you at the back or slap you right in the face in order to hurt and humiliate you in front of others. In dealing with such hurts and shame, claim for God's help and allow Him to win your battles. In the midst of every storm, be still and know that He is God.


Scriptures:

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. -- -- Isaiah 50:6

For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. -- Isaiah 50:7

Published: April 17, 2011 - 6:20 AM

Clean Hands and Pure Heart

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, 

who does not lift up his soul to what is false, 

and does not swear deceitfully. 

He will receive blessing from the LORD, 

and vindication from the God of his salvation.

Psalm 24:4-5

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees (Isaiah 35:3).

Stretch forth your hand towards God as an infant towards its father to be conducted by Him. -- St. Francis de Sales

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel (John 13:3-4).

But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake (Luke 21:12).

When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands, and said nobly, "I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again." As a result the king himself and those with him were astonished at the young man's spirit, for he regarded his sufferings as nothing (2 Maccabees 7:10-12).

I will see the hand of God in all that happens to me, attributing nothing to individual people, who are but instruments used by Him in the work of my sanctification. -- Blessed Raphaela Mary

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant. -- St. John Vianney


"Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" (John 13:9)

Glory of the Lord Heals the Body

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy.  -- Isaiah 35:3-6

Anointing of the Eye

John 9:6

I was blind and the Lord gave me sight. He anointed my eyes that I may see the truth and believe that He is my God.

He said to me, "wash yourself clean for you have received my mercy and forgiveness".

People may see me as I was then, and may wonder if I am truly what I am now. But I say to them, "the Lord had opened my eyes to see the goodness of His deeds!".

I am a sinner and I need my Lord to save me from day to day, even in a day of rest. Those who knew me before may not understand the things that I do today but I say to them again, "I believe in Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, who gives sight to the blind, that they may see the glory of His salvation!".

Lord, I believe and shall worship you all the days of my life. . .

Stretch Forth your Hands

The third was the victim of their sport.

When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands, and said nobly, "I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again."

As a result the king himself and those with him were astonished at the young man's spirit, for he regarded his sufferings as nothing. -- 2 Maccabees 7:10-12