Beware of "the flower soporific"

"Sanctify them by the truth, your word is the truth." John 17.17

Today's world offers so many possibilities to never get bored, to escape, to always discover new things. But if our body and our intellect are constantly solicited, it is our mind and our soul who pay the consequences, sinking more and more into a deep and dangerous spiritual sleep.

"Aspire the fragrance of the Word of God."

There is, it seems, in the Himalayas, a certain flower whose perfume plunges travelers into a lethargic sleep. To preserve it, the locals hold in their hand another plant whose perfume neutralizes the effect.

The "soporific flower" is a beautiful plant whose luster is seductive ; but one can not walk, let alone stretch among these flowers, without falling into a dreadful sleep.

These flowers are not poisonous. Those who give in to this sleep die only after a certain number of days, not poisoned, but by dehydration and lack of food.

Such is the action of the pleasures of this world. They are not bad in themselves, but they exert a sluggish action on those who do it.

But there is a solution ! The remedy for this pernicious influence is the Word of God.

Draw up the perfume and you will cross, without stopping there, the dangerous parterres of the temptations of this world.

A commitment for today

Seek the help of the Lord to prayerfully read his Word every day ! Ask him to arrange your mind to have an active effect on you. Thus you will be preserved from all the pernicious influences to which you are exposed in contact with this lost world.

Jean-Louis Gaillard

Source (The Thought of the Day)