Not Lacking

"If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance." Jesus (Mark, 8:3)

The preoccupation that Jesus had for the multitudes continues alive through time.

How many religious faiths palpitate in the hearts of the Nations influenced by the providential love of the Divine Master?

There may be some perverse, desperate men, who persevere in evil and in denial, but a community cannot be seen without the help of faith. Even the savages receive positions of assistance from the Father, naturally, according to their rustic primitive interpretations. Food from Heaven is not lacking to the individuals. If some spirits declare their incredulity of God's paternal love, it is because they are either incapable or ill due to internal ruins to which they submitted.

Jesus manifests His untiring preoccupation in nurturing the souls of His protégées in a thousand different ways, from the huts of the natives to the cathedrals of the great metropolis.

In those positions of sublime assistance, the individuals learn with their gradual effort, to nourish themselves spiritually, until bringing the church into their home, and transporting it from the domestic sanctuary into their own heart.

Few people meditate over the importance of the infinite mercy of this edificating mass of religious ideas in the world.

The Master is inclined toward the good of all men. Filled with love and abnegation He knows how to nourish with specific resources the ignorant and the wise, the believer and the questioner, the rebel and the unfortunate one. Better than anyone else, Jesus understands that any other way, the individuals would fall exhausted through the immense cliffs that border on the evolutionary path.

XAVIER, Francisco Cândido. Our Daily Bread. By the Spirit Emmanuel. Spititist Alliance for Books, 2003. Chapter 124.