Communion experience. When the priest consecrates the bread and wine, they change into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. This is one great miracle I witness at every Mass. It shows that the Lord gives himself up for us for the forgiveness of sins. I wonder how many of us really see and appreciate all that.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
***We've Been Raised Too!
In today's reading 1 from Romans 6, Paul asks his brothers and sisters to present themselves to God as raised from the dead to life. As believes and followers of Christ, we have indeed been raised from the dead, since as sinners we were lost and dead, but now we have life eternal!
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
**Getting Out of God's Way*
The only way to save he world is let God do it. To let God do it is for us to obey him. Anytime we disobey God, we stifle his work.
**Longing for God
How much you long for the Lord to come to you reflects how much you long to go to him.
*****Most Beautiful Intimate Relationship (Entering Heaven Is Easy)*****
Thanks to the Holy Eucharist, we can attain union with God and become his soulmates. This absolutely has to be the most intimate relationship you can possibly form on earth, beautiful beyond words! That you and God can belong to each other is truly amazing. Well, we have an amazing God who is all love. Who says that getting into heaven is hard? The door is wide open—all you need to do is to run straight to him and he'll take care of the rest!
***Know How God Has Made Us
Altho we are sinners, we basically do have a kind heart willing to help others in need and a conscience that informs us what's good and what's evil. We also do feel the emptiness of life without God, and deep down hunger for and desire to know him. This is how God has made us and it is important that we realize this. We didn't just appear on earth and were meant to wander thru life aimlessly. If we believe in the God of Christ, everything starts to make sense. As he is always calling us, if we pay attention and listen to him, we see the light and are set free.
Monday, October 23, 2023
***Letting God Humble Us***
Communion experience. Receiving the Lord humbly is most effective in making us humble. (He makes us feel this way so that he can exalt us.)
***My Only Reality
At this point, I feel that Christ is the only reality. All non-God experiences are like a bunch of dreams I've had. They just fade away. And I am not dreaming!
*****Important Distinction*
Knowing the teachings of the Lord doesn't necessarily help you become like him. It is in knowing him personally first that you receive power to follow his teachings to become like him. The Lord himself always comes first.
**Greed Turns Us into Fools**
In today's Gospel reading from Luke, Jesus said to the crowd,"Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then the Lord told the people the parable of the rich fool. A rich man decided to tear down his barns and build larger ones to store up all his grain and other goods for many years. And he was going to rest, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said to him, "You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?" Touché! Most of us store up treasure for ourselves, but what we really need is to be rich in what matters to God!
***Do Not Judge Others
We all fall short of loving God as we should, so we have no right to judge others. Only God, our Lord and creator, holy and perfect, is fit to judge us. Thus judging others is playing God, showing the total lack of humility.
**Living in Harmony with God*
I see Jesus to be the center of my life and all else peripheral in importance. To live for him alone thus is to be in harmony with your Lord God in his universe.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
***Only One True God***
In today's first reading from Isaiah 45, the LORD says, I am the LORD and there is no other, there is no God besides me. There may be many self-proclaimed gods, but there can only be one true God. If you don't believe that the Lord God of Christ is our God, you must prove that there is no truth in both the Old and New Testaments.
**God Making Us Worthy
Communion experience. The Lord is ready to unite with us. Are we then ready to receive him? We are never worthy on our own, but we can put ourselves completely at his disposal to make us worthy.
***Big Reminder***
We may now live in peace or chaos, in a shack or a villa, but we are all going to move to another place after we leave the earth. It'll be forever with or without God. So we'd better think ahead and get ready now.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
**Word on Predictions*
With so many predictions coming to us from so many different sources and a good percentage of them seemingly not to have come true, it can be confusing. This video presents a balanced view and sums up how we can best be prepared no matter what happens.
***Our Most Glorious Accomplishment*****
It is having the humility to submit our will to God's. This is how you get to experience and know God. It's also the key to entering heaven.
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