Never forget that Jesus came down to earth to save only sinners. The greater your sin, the more he wants to help you. To reject him is like refusing to go and see your doctor when you are sick and dying!
Saturday, January 28, 2023
***Evidence Jesus Is God
Jesus accomplished whatever he wished simply by willing it. He willed to heal someone and the person got well instantly. He willed to change water into wine and it's done on the spot. He willed to calm down the storm and it obeyed him outright. Look at us, when we want to accomplish something, we can spend a lot of money, do extensive research and study, and still fail to come up with anything. Christ has to be the Lord God!
**God Speaking to Us Through Laity*
Many believe that we are now living in some kind of end-times. Even the Church has been infiltrated by evil. And there have never been this many messages and warnings purportedly coming from heaven, asking us to convert, repent, and surrender to God. Of course, not all such prophecies are reliable, but you can trust the ones that come to us from the saints and those seers that have been approved by the Church. All this shows that we are in urgent need of returning to God or it may be too late for us. At Mass in most Catholic churches, you hear the usual complacent homily preached without any urgency. There have been courageous priests who did speak out, then they got reprimanded by their superior or canceled by the bishop altogether. I believe that since the Church doesn't speak out loud and clear for the Lord, he has no choice but to use more and more of his lay followers to help him spread his messages.
Friday, January 27, 2023
***Three Days of Darkness
This has been prophesied by quite a number of holy persons in the past and I personally believe that it will happen. I think that the warning, the Illumination of Conscience, will come first, and the three days of darkness could follow sooner than we expect. You'll find many YouTube videos on the subject. Here is a good presentation not too long by Dr. Taylor Marshall. Anyway, the important message is that we convert and reman holy, and we'll have no need to fear whatever punishment or chastisement God sends our way.
***Our Greatest Miracle
In today's Gospel reading from Mark 4, Jesus said to the crowds: "To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade." How good it is for us to be like that mustard seed, letting God make it grow! Know that when God transforms us, it is the greatest miracle that can happen to us.
***Living This Life Wisely
Our life continues on beyond death, for our soul is immortal. We are only now living the minuscule beginning of our life. Not seeing this is blindly heading toward an abyss. One who follows Christ knows he'll always be with the Lord. This makes a difference as vast as that between day and night. The best I can say about living only for this life is being myopic to the extreme.
***Amazing Power of Love***
Jesus is the only one who has died for us out of love and made many of us willing to die for him.
Thursday, January 26, 2023
**Proud and Humbling Experience
Communion experience. The Lord is all mine; I now possess him! I couldn't quite believe that he would let me receive him, and this humbled me.
***Surrendering to God for Maximum Returns
We reap what we sow. How much we receive from God depends upon how wide we open up to him. To be wide open to the Lord is to surrender our will, our mind, our heart, our soul . . . our whole being to him. When we do that, it's like opening all the floodgates to let all God's blessings and graces in. This is reaping most abundantly from the Lord.
**Total Dependence upon God*
On the physical level, without God sustaining us, we would instantly die. On the spiritual level, without him wishing to save us from sin, we would perish forever. He's the one to hold onto for existence!
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
**Soul over Body*
Communion experience. I see that my soul dwells in my body only temporarily. One day it will leave the body, discarding it altogether. From the numerous near-death experience stories, we learn that after a person's soul leaves the body, all the senses amazingly become even more vivid. So don't get hung up on your body too much, for the soul is infinitely more important. Saying "Happy Eternal Life" would be more meaningful than saying "Good Health" to anyone. (The only thing is that people might think you want them to die when they hear you wish them HEL, whereas GH clearly means "Don't die yet.") Anyway, when I receive the Lord in the Holy Eucharist, I know that my soul now belongs to him.
***A Life Passing By
I am already at a ripe old age, so I think I am qualified to describe what living a typical life in a country like the USA is like. Take a typical person who lives to about eighty. Of course, in the early years, you are just discovering the world and learning about it. Then you go to school, studying all the common secular subjects. Say you do get thru college. Now you concentrate on getting a good job. Your whole aim is to make a lot of money. As time passes, you work hard to realize you dreams. You might have already become a Christian by then, but Christ is just not you top interest. When you approach sixty, you either continue to pursue material success or start thinking about retirement. In the meantime, various health issues start popping up and finally, you start thinking about God and your own inevitable demise more. But the attachment to the material world is still strong and you face fighting a tough battle. You still decide to enjoy this world as much as possible in the time you've left, whereas abandoning yourself more to God is more appropriate. Really, the best way to live is to follow Christ first and only as early as possible, then you'll become detached to all material things. When death approaches, you look forward to meeting Christ your Savior and returning to the heavenly Father in peace and with joy. Heaven is now assured.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
**Not-of-the-World Feeling
After Mass, I did all my prayers before the Lord in the tabernacle. As I drove home, seeing all the familiar roads, trees, and houses along the way, I felt that I no longer belonged to this world. I felt liberated—it was a great feeling!
***Everlasting Relationship!
Communion experience. Christ is my Lord and my God. I realized that this bond would last forever and was filled with joy.
**How to Do Unpleasant Things
Many things we'd rather not do, but we have to do. For example, something around the house breaks down, now I must figure out how to fix it, go to buy whatever I need, and do the work. If it's something I can't handle myself, then I must look for a professional first. All these things I'd rather not have to handle. Then I regard doing such work as doing it for the Lord, and I lose all my anxiety. I am just going to get to it and complete it in a timely, orderly manner. By offering all work up to the Lord, he sets me free.
**Feeling Sorry for the Lord and Us
We all sin against the Lord. We feel sorry for the Lord because he is holy, and for ourselves because we are sinners. This is good because we are close to repenting our sins.
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