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 Follow Jesus and he'll ultimately lead you to ETERNAL JOY!        

***Our Private Battle (a Warning)

         Here's one summary of the life of all those who have heard abut Christ. They fight themselves over whether to let God be their Lord or be lords themselves. The battle can go on their whole lifetime. Bless those who are humble enough to surrender to Christ and follow him, for they will have life eternal in heaven. But pity those who hold onto their pride and do not abandon themselves entirely to Christ, for they risk being cast out by the Lord in the end. All are on earth now and the split begins when they depart from here.

***On Communion Experience**

         You adore the Lord. After you receive him in the Holy Eucharist, he now dwells in you. Adoration becomes more internal. The experience humbles and sanctifies you. More peace and joy ensue.

**Communion Experience

         To receive the Lord is to surrender to him so as to let his love make you whole. 

**Rejoicing in the One Forever New**

         In this world, everything eventually perishes, but Christ remains the same forever—I could say that he remains new forever. This makes following him exciting and satisfying. He's the one to rejoice in always!

***All or Nothing with God*

        If you pray for God's protection against evil or anything, you must be willing to put yourself in his hands. If you pretty much think that you can take care of yourself, then any request for protection just can't be serious. It's like telling God that you love him but don't come too close. With the Lord God, it has to be all or nothing, for you can't possibly trust in any god who doesn't demand total obedience.

***What a Christian Looks Forward To

        The spirit within us basically seeks freedom. Follow Christ and that is achieved. You now see the day you leave this world as your day of liberation! For you now will be free with your Savior forever!

***Holy Rule*

         Never do anything to make people see or think that you are good; do only whatever the Holy Spirit prompts you to do.

***Know Our Place***

         No matter how smart we are, we can never create life, for God is the sole source of life! It's he who keeps us alive! Even if we can duplicate a human body (which we can't), it will remain lifeless. Because we have life, we have a conscience. Now, this would be even more impossible for us to create. So we need to remain humble and submit ourselves totally to the Lord God who's our sole creator and Lord. By the way, he created us out of pure love, in case you are not aware.

***Reason to Rejoice!***

         How good it is that we have a Lord who can read and loves to speak to our hearts!

***** How to Live Forever*****

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 5, Jesus called Simon, James, and John, and they left everything and followed him. What an ideal and beautiful act! This is precisely the way to be set free from sin and go to heaven!    

**A Central Truth**

         Colossians 1:13-14 from today's first reading: God delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. This statement by the Apostle Paul is important for all of us, whether Christians or not, to understand, for it's a statement of truth, not to be dismissed!