No matter how hard we serve the Lord, we'll alway fall short, for he is infinite greater than us. The good news is that if we truly feel that way, we know that the Lord is going to exalt us way high!
Monday, December 23, 2024
**To Die ___ Jesus
Communion experience. We can die in Jesus, die for Jesus, or die with Jesus. Today that last preposition seemed to describe how I wished to die best.
***Trusting in the Lord in All Things
When you abandon yourself totally to God, you trust in him fully, so you even welcome his judgment of you, no matter how it turns out.
**Livening Up the Faith
The unbelievers are asleep and even many believers are barely awake. To liven up the faith, an encounter with Christ is needed. Of course, you need to open up to the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to fill you. Some see faith as a gift, but to receive it, you just have to open up and desire it. I don't see how the Lord can possibly refuse you if you truly ask for it from your heart.
*****The Lord Most Endearing***
Revelation 3:20, today's Communion antiphon: Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if anyone hears my voice and opens the door to me, I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me. How gentle, loving, and endearing the Lord is!
***Dealing with Family Estrangement*
Our society has been so influenced by the Evil One that even many Christian families have fallen apart. In talking to some of the older fellow parishioners, I have learned that their children or some other family member no longer communicate with them. In one case, the grandparents are not even allowed to see their grandchildren. Satan has certainly done a good job of destroying the family. If you face such a situation, pray for the other side and make sure that you forgive them and will try your best to make peace. For taking care of your own soul should always be one of your top priorities.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
***Best Way to Love God***
Follow his will. So it comes down to knowing God's will. This means that we need to seek to attain the closest possible union with God in order to know his ways and thoughts.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
**Empty Wishing Without Christ**
At this time of Christmas (holiday season to many), people wish each other joy and peace. Such good will will be just empty talk and not produce good results if we do not have Christ in our hearts. It is from Christ that we can truly receive peace and joy. So pray that all will come to know and receive him as our Savior before wishing anyone joy and peace.
***Best Way to Exist***
Never dwell on the past, for it's gone forever, nor dream about the future, for that's being self-centered and unrealistic. Instead, remain in Christ only and always, then you'll be safe and secure, set for all eternity!
**A Sane View of Life*
We get stressed out in this world so easily whenever things don't turn out our way, for we are self-serving and have no faith in God. Meanwhile we ruin our own health and shorten our lives on earth. Know that these damages we do to ourselves are irreversible. So we are being both foolish and sinful. Fortunately, God can restore our insanity by freeing us from all our sins so that we can become selfless and carefree. With our soul healed, our physical health now matters a lot less.
Friday, December 20, 2024
***To Love Enough
There are ones we love very much in this life, but one day we'll have to say goodbye to them. To make the best of things, we should pray for their salvation so that we may see them forever in heaven. If you truly love God and them, God surely loves them even more and will hear your prayer. By the way, to not pray for someone's salvation shows that you really don't love that person enough.
***Wisdom to Have***
In today's Gospel reading from Luke 1, the angel Gabriel came to the virgin Mary to announce to her that she would conceive and bear a son to be named Jesus, and he would be great and be called the Son of the Most High. Mary wondered how that could happen when she had no relations with a man. The angel told her that the Holy Spirit would come upon her to make it happen. And Mary gladly accepted the Lord's will for her. On the other hand, earlier when the angel Gabriel appeared to Zechariah in the sanctuary at the temple to announce to him that his wife Elizabeth would bear him a son to be named John, Zechariah asked the angel how he should know this, for he was an old man and his wife was already advanced in years. The angel said to him, "I was sent by God to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. But now you will be speechless and unable to talk until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words"
Both Mary and Zechariah responded: one tried to understand and the Lord was pleased, while the other doubted and was punished. The Lord knows every nuance of my thoughts and it's wise for us to trust in him 100% always.
*****Serious Advice***
The Lord of Christ is the one to whom we must pay attention, respond, and be obedient! Otherwise, it'd be better that we never came into being.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
***True Love Is . . .
pure and completely selfless. Our love for others in the world is never quite pure, while God's love for us is so pure that it's able to transform us to become like him. Compared to his love, our own love for others is not true love at all.
**How to Be with God*
Communion experience. The Lord is the one for us to live in, to die in, and to remain in forever.
**Acknowledgement**
When you call Jesus "My Lord and my God" from your very heart, you acknowledge that you now belong to him.
***Question I Still Want to Ask*
The Lord God our Father has already paved the way for us to enter heaven thru his Son Jesus—are you to just say "No, thanks" and turn away? Are You?
**Unbelief vs. Faith
Not believing in Christ is easy—you just live for yourself. You think you are in control, but you are really not at all. In fact, you can end up losing everything! To have faith in Christ is only somewhat hard when you are deciding whether to follow him or not. Once you've decided to follow him, your journey becomes a total joy. Now you can soar to new heights and end up inheriting all that the Father has prepared for you in heaven.
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