18-Sep-2025 | Week 38
Zephaniah 3:16-17
He is Waiting for You
“In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Do not fear; Zion, let not your hands be weak. The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.””
Commentary
“The Lord is always waiting for us to unite ourselves with Him in love; but instead, we drift further and further away from Him. We know that there can be no life without love. This means that there is no life without God, for God is Love. But His love is not according to the understanding of the world. The love that the world gives us consists of suffering and enslavement, because the spirits of evil interfere with it. There is a little bit of love, but mostly it is just enslavement.”

~ Elder Thaddeus

Reflection
Question 1
The Lord says the words: “do not fear” or “do not worry” 365 times throughout the whole bible. Does this mean it is a sin if we are feeling anxious? How can we overcome?