"Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)

Monday, April 21, 2025

**Peace Completed

        Communion experience. The Lord completes my peace.

**To Please ≠ to Love**

        To please someone is not the same as to love someone. If you try to please someone without love, then you motive is not pure. But if you love someone with no concern about whether that person will be pleased or not, your love is pure. Usually, you want to please God because you love him. Wishing to please God alone and not yourself is a noteworthy virtue! The trouble with today's world is that too many people are so eager to please others with ulterior motives that they forget all about pleasing God.

***Smart Move to Make Now***

        Pope Francis has just died after his bout with pneumonia. May he rest in peace! It just shows that you can be the most powerful, the most wealthy, the most famous, the most admired, or the most popular person in the whole world and still die, face the Lord God, and end up doing whatever he wants you to do. So the smart thing to do is to do God's will always now so that after you die, you'll not have to do anything that goes against your will.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

**How to Initiate Knowing God*

        The best approach is to go directly to him and talk to him humbly from your heart that's completely open to him. Otherwise, your pride can easily get in the way to impede any progress. 

***Learning to Abandon Ourselves to God***

        We always have those we love and pray hard for, yet they remain hardhearted and unbelieving. Perhaps we should become more detached from them and trust in God even more. When God tested Abraham's faith and obedience by asking him to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering, he actually started carrying it out without hesitation—that was absolutely amazing and inspiring! I think his example can help us abandon ourselves totally to God, knowing that he tests those who love him and will always come through.

***What Not to Put Off

        You can put off doing many things and it's not going to matter much, but you should never put off doing God's will. So get to know him well so that you my know and follow his will. True living is all about learning to let God be your Lord, thus setting you free from yourself. 

***Knowing Christ vs. Not Knowning Him***

        I have not seen Christ the Lord, yet he came to me and made me know him as if I had seen him. For this I am overjoyed and most grateful. I truly pity those who do not believe in him and are unaware of what they are missing and will happen to them in the end should they not wake up.

***Greatest Joy and Greatest Sorrow***

        Our greatest joy is knowing that God loves us, and our greatest sorrow is knowing that many do not love him to their own detriment.

***There's Only One God***

        If all those who believe in Christ gain eternal life, then certainly all those who reject him won't receive that—he's the dividing factor here. On judgment day, we'll be either taken or left behind. Many believe that there is a God and Christ is it!  

***Easter Message to All***

         The Lord God bas already extended his mercy to us to the max—he has given his own Son so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. So cast your pride aside, soften you heart, and welcome this terrific news. God is all for us; let him win and we win big!