His Chosen People

Step #1: Lectio / Read

Click the link below or open your Bible to the passage and read through the reading at least once, paying attention to what is happening in the text. 

Ezekiel 37:21-28

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Step #2: Meditatio / Meditate

Use the following meditation to help you reflect more deeply on the Scripture (you may want to read the passage again).

​“I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

How beautiful is this first reading today?! God is so good. God is faithful. In today’s reading He is proclaiming to the Israelites all the good things that He is promising them. Why? “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” But it’s not just the Israelites who He has chosen. He also chooses us. He loves us and we are His chosen people. 

So far this has been a hard year, and we’re only three months in. I feel stressed, tired, confused. Most of all I feel lost. I am not sure where God is calling me or asking me to do. I feel like I’m wandering. I don’t know what to do, so I place my trust in Him. 

I’m thinking the Israelites must have felt something similar when they were wandering in the desert. Now, years later they still don’t have a home. They have been conquered by one army after another. Life as they had always known it was very different. They didn’t know where they were going and didn’t know where it would end. Time and time again God asked them to trust Him. 

God doesn’t ask us to blindly trust Him. No, God asks us to trust Him because He loves us. Because He has promised us so much, just as He promised the Israelites a new land, promised them that they will remain as one nation, promised them that He will provide. “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

God wants to provide for you too. You are His chosen child. God is there is all those moments that you are lost, stressed or confused. God wants to love you, be there with you, just like He has been with people throughout time. The question is, will you choose Him to be your God? 

“I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

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Step #3: Oratio / Pray

These questions are to be used to talk to God; have a conversation with the Lord about these questions and what is going on in your heart as you pray today.

Do you trust that God will provide for you? Why or why not?

Do you believe that He has chosen you? How can you begin to believe this truth more today?

​Will you choose Him to be your God?

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Step #4: Contemplatio / Contemplate

In this step, you listen. Stop talking, let God speak to your heart. You may repeat one of these short phrases to focus your mind on the Lord.

"My Lord and my God."

"Jesus, I trust in you."

​"Come Holy Spirit."

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Step #5: Actio / Act

In light of today's reading and your time spent in prayer with the Lord, what concrete action or actions will you take to let this encounter with the Lord bear fruit in you today?

Choose God today. Make an intentional decision to put God first today as often as possible.

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Today's prayer was prepared by Lisa Kendzior, Junior High Youth Minister at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Crystal Lake, IL. 

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