Who Will We Believe?

Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord God, When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the LORD (Amos 8:11).

Every now and then –

like now –

I long to hear

what prophets and saints

said of sin

righteousness

and  judgment –

instead of what some

with academic letters

say they said;


 “God doesn’t send

calamities

or judgment

for our sins.”


“Sin,” they say

“is its own judgment.”


 But that is

not

at all

what God’s prophets –

men without academic letters,

but full of His Holy Spirit –

said.


Prophets like:

Daniel

or Jeremiah

or Ezekiel

or St. Paul


 or even Jesus.


God judges sin.

Sometimes soon.

Sometimes delayed.

But always sure.


Perhaps

if we paid better heed

to God’s prophets
and our Sacred Tradition,
instead of modern opinions,

we would

as a Church and as individuals

be more passionate to

be holy as He is holy

to

pray, fast, repent,


and thereby avert

the otherwise inevitable disasters

God’s prophets and saints warned of.


Every now and then,

I long to hear
truth.