Would you rather become a saint and have no one know you, or just go to church every now and then, yet be very popular?
To many it seems that the latter is more important to them. Whether it be because they like being popular, find being very holy is hard, or even they just don't believe or care enough to believe in God enough to make a difference could be any of those reasons and all of them at once. It's hard now in days to be fully faithful in your religion, especially when there are so many things to distract us and cause us to sin, yet they seem like ordinary fun things everybody does everyday.
Jesus says "I am the one, The Truth and the the Light, for no one shall go to my Father, but through me." Later in the bible He's heard to say "Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you with just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished." God never said getting to Heaven would be easy. We must be patient, obedient and follow the Lord. Follow his rules (Ten Commandments), pray, go to church, and do what it takes for you to become closer to God. So you can have that personal relationship with Him.
Because in the end, does it really matter if you're popular on Earth, when you could be 10 times more popular in Heaven for having become a Saint?
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
John 14:27
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
- John 14:27
Monday, August 26, 2013
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that those who believe in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life."
- John 3:16
that those who believe in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life."
- John 3:16
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Love
There's a certain feeling or rather emotion we get when we here the word Love. It males us want to experience, hold it, touch, and understand it. Many say they've found their true love, but what dies that truly mean? We're all humans (hopefully) and therefore we can all understand that Love itself is a crazy thing. We will never be able to completely understand it.. Well, not on Earth atleast. See, as humans we have come to realize that Love cannot be entirely obtains through physically being human, but tends to deal with a more "supernatural" aspect.
This is where God seems to step into the picture and provide that long, yearning feeling we so desperately have for Love and fills it. And not to just satisfy us, bu rather overwhelms us, so hat we may be truly and desperately happy. He wants us to find Love. He wants us to be overwhelmed with it and be truly happt. He wants us o find Him, because it's He alone who can fulfill our deepest wants and true desires to more than we ever ask for. While some may say that it seems hat God has abandon us since there is war, poverty, and restricted freedom in man places, I say that He hasn't. For it is impossible for Him to abandon us, because we are a part of Him and He is in part in each one of us. We are His beloved children and just like your father would never abandon you, so does God not abandon us.
If we want to truly BELIEVE in Love, then all we really must to is see and understand the sacrifice our on Holy Father has done for us. To give up his ONLY begotten son, to save us all from damnation and Hell do to our sins. Instead He freed us and delivered us from evil.
If we want to truly SEE Love, then all you have to do is realize how great God's gifts are to you. To give such grace and mercy tha it burns in your soul, that makes you want to cry out for the riddance of evil in every corner of the world.
What kind of Love is that? We cannot and will never truly understand that kind of Love until we go to Heaven and see our Holy Father face-to-face. But don't think that Love is out of reach. Our Father is always with us and there for us even when we don't expect it. Continuance of pray for peace, forgiveness, and guide Essex in a world that is becoming ever darker, we need to grow closer in our relationship with Him. Our God has not and will never abandon us, isn't that what true Love really about? How else to do explain why weddings vows state a life of eternity with someone? We try everything to replicate the true Love that God has for us, but that kinda of Love just can't be truly duplicated because you simply have to experience it to completely and fully understand it.
This is where God seems to step into the picture and provide that long, yearning feeling we so desperately have for Love and fills it. And not to just satisfy us, bu rather overwhelms us, so hat we may be truly and desperately happy. He wants us to find Love. He wants us to be overwhelmed with it and be truly happt. He wants us o find Him, because it's He alone who can fulfill our deepest wants and true desires to more than we ever ask for. While some may say that it seems hat God has abandon us since there is war, poverty, and restricted freedom in man places, I say that He hasn't. For it is impossible for Him to abandon us, because we are a part of Him and He is in part in each one of us. We are His beloved children and just like your father would never abandon you, so does God not abandon us.
If we want to truly BELIEVE in Love, then all we really must to is see and understand the sacrifice our on Holy Father has done for us. To give up his ONLY begotten son, to save us all from damnation and Hell do to our sins. Instead He freed us and delivered us from evil.
If we want to truly SEE Love, then all you have to do is realize how great God's gifts are to you. To give such grace and mercy tha it burns in your soul, that makes you want to cry out for the riddance of evil in every corner of the world.
What kind of Love is that? We cannot and will never truly understand that kind of Love until we go to Heaven and see our Holy Father face-to-face. But don't think that Love is out of reach. Our Father is always with us and there for us even when we don't expect it. Continuance of pray for peace, forgiveness, and guide Essex in a world that is becoming ever darker, we need to grow closer in our relationship with Him. Our God has not and will never abandon us, isn't that what true Love really about? How else to do explain why weddings vows state a life of eternity with someone? We try everything to replicate the true Love that God has for us, but that kinda of Love just can't be truly duplicated because you simply have to experience it to completely and fully understand it.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Psalms 18:1, 2
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Beauty
Beauty, or rather beautiful. The word itself is something we give to anything we like or love, but what does it really mean? Why do we really call something cute, pretty, or beautiful? Is beauty really only skin deep? And is beauty really only within the eye of the beholder?
The dictionary definition of the word beautiful is "Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration". Now you must be wondering, what are you getting at here blogger? Well, if we take a closer look at the definition itself, then we can see how it doesn't necessarily mean a good thing. For instance, if we're to really go by the dictionary definition of beauty, then we can presume that anything that excites and pleases us is beautiful to us, correct? Well, then does that mean drugs, alcohol, and sins are beautiful? Because if so, I must have been born on the wrong side of everything.
In the bible it says that God had created us in the image of himself, and both man and woman are alike to be so. To me this would only mean that God is the true definition of beauty. If He hated sin and helps us everyday in trying to abolish it, then sin and other bad things similar to it, must not be considered truly beautiful. If we are to truly understand what beauty really means, then the only way to find out would be to go to God directly, right? Afterall, if we're made to look like Him and He created everything around us, then He must truly know what the definition of beauty is because I can't find anything more beautiful than what He's created. With true beauty comes true adoration and love for what you see and continue to seek.
My true example of true beauty would be nature. Nothing in this world surpass trying to understand how such massive mountains formed to give us such high views or miles of fields of corn or wheat. Nature is the closest way I can get to better understanding God and what true beauty means. Everyday I find another reason in nature to try and grow closer with God.
You can try it too. Just stop for a couple minutes at some point in time in your busy day today and just look around you. Pay attention to the people. Listen to all the different sounds. And try to just get a real good look at where you really are and try to imagine how it got created. Everything in this world doesn't just happen or appear out of nowhere.
So let's try to not go with the main stream of what others think is beautiful, but stake out our own path and grow closer and deeper to the true meaning of beauty, which is God Himself.
The dictionary definition of the word beautiful is "Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration". Now you must be wondering, what are you getting at here blogger? Well, if we take a closer look at the definition itself, then we can see how it doesn't necessarily mean a good thing. For instance, if we're to really go by the dictionary definition of beauty, then we can presume that anything that excites and pleases us is beautiful to us, correct? Well, then does that mean drugs, alcohol, and sins are beautiful? Because if so, I must have been born on the wrong side of everything.
In the bible it says that God had created us in the image of himself, and both man and woman are alike to be so. To me this would only mean that God is the true definition of beauty. If He hated sin and helps us everyday in trying to abolish it, then sin and other bad things similar to it, must not be considered truly beautiful. If we are to truly understand what beauty really means, then the only way to find out would be to go to God directly, right? Afterall, if we're made to look like Him and He created everything around us, then He must truly know what the definition of beauty is because I can't find anything more beautiful than what He's created. With true beauty comes true adoration and love for what you see and continue to seek.
My true example of true beauty would be nature. Nothing in this world surpass trying to understand how such massive mountains formed to give us such high views or miles of fields of corn or wheat. Nature is the closest way I can get to better understanding God and what true beauty means. Everyday I find another reason in nature to try and grow closer with God.
You can try it too. Just stop for a couple minutes at some point in time in your busy day today and just look around you. Pay attention to the people. Listen to all the different sounds. And try to just get a real good look at where you really are and try to imagine how it got created. Everything in this world doesn't just happen or appear out of nowhere.
So let's try to not go with the main stream of what others think is beautiful, but stake out our own path and grow closer and deeper to the true meaning of beauty, which is God Himself.
St. Thomas Aquinace
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
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