We ponder how we can love God more, we meditate upon God's beauty, we reflect upon our own feelings about the Lord, we try to understand our innermost feelings . . . all these things I can do on my own, but I can do so much better if I remain completely open to the Lord. For then I see all things clearly with his light shining on them. This is absolutely the key to knowing the Lord and understanding all truths! So, be wide open to God at all times to be enlightened.
Monday, June 2, 2025
***Not as Able as We Think
When we are young and physically fit, we tend to believe that we can do anything in this world. So we're just not concerned about our spiritual wellbeing. Then finally we grow old enough to see the end of life approaching and realize that we cannot do many things anymore. Having been ingrained in the way of the world for so long, we find turning to God not always easy. Some may not fully wake up to reality until their last moments on earth. This message is to remind all that we are finite beings on our way returning to our infinite God to be judged by him. So the earlier we realize this to get ready, the better for us.
***Taking Another Look at Jesus***
Here's why we should believe that Jesus is our Lord, our God, and our Savior. The fact that he rose from the dead on the third day is undeniable. He taught and spoke to us with authority as God and performed numerous miracles. Today we are still seeing such wonders happening among us, not to mention the vast number of people whose lives have been transformed by his love. As sinners, we are grateful that he can cleanse us from sin and make us heaven bound. He is unique, for no one else loves us to death and challenges us to the core at the same time. Of course, many of us still have trouble believing in him. So let's try looking at the whole thing rationally. Suppose that the chance Jesus is true is just 50-50. If you don't believe in him and he turns out to be true, you are doomed. On the other hand, if you believe in him and he turns out to be false, you are not in any worse shape. So if you have any sense at all, you would choose to believe in him, as the risk of losing your soul forever is unthinkable! You have to be out of your mind not to believe in him, especially if you cannot prove beyond any doubt that he is all false.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
**Following Christ Better Aim
Trying to be a good Christian is fine, but to be more precise and effective, follow his will at all times.
**Eternal Gratitude**
Communion time thought: Who am I that the Lord should favor so much as to die in my place to save me from eternal death?
**The Ball Is in Our Court**
Jesus is fully ready to save us. The key question for us: Are we ready to let him do that?
**To Be Dumb by Choice*
The Lord God wishes that we surrender ourselves to him so that we may have life eternal, but our prideful nature comes up with all kinds of reasons to say no to that. How dumb can you get?
Saturday, May 31, 2025
***Only Move You Need to Make**
If you love God, you only need to be open and totally receptive to him. This puts you in a most humble state and the Lord will come to you and reveal himself to you, leading you to trust and obey him fully.
***Just Believing in God Good Enouigh?
If you do believe in the Lord, do you actually feel that you need him for all things at all times? This is important, for you can believe in him and still do all things without consulting him. Of course, if you are already in union with him, you'd be aware of his holy presence within you constantly.
**Blunt Truth**
Anytime we lose peace, we have strayed away from the Lord. This is how he has made us so that we may seek to return to him.
***Christ (Truth) Makes All the Difference**
When you have Christ, he guides and guards you every step of the way, leading you to eternal life in heaven for sure. When you don't have him, you try your best to find happiness on earth in vain, not knowing what awaits you after death. The difference can't be any greater!
Friday, May 30, 2025
**Pity the Evildoers*
When you do evil, not only you don't experience a single moment of peace in this life, but you also suffer eternal punishment in the next. Evildoers are the dumbest of all fools!
***Letting Joy Spearhead Our Way*
Joy in the cure for all our past pains and sufferings. In today's Gospel reading from John 16, Jesus uses the example of a woman in labor to inform his disciples that they would grieve, but their grief would become joy. He said to them, "When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world." Now we all know once we have entered heaven, all past painful memories will be forgotten, for nothing can possibly diminish the joy of eternal life! So let us start rejoicing in the Lord always to become invulnerable to whatever pains and hardships we experience, allowing the joy of the Lord to spearhead the rest of our way to heaven.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
***Goal of All Christians*
Only the God of Christ can make us holy and perfect and see things as he sees them. As long as we all have not yet yielded ourselves totally to the Lord, we still see things our way. The result is that we still hold onto our own pride to various degrees. One time I counseled someone, citing a saying by Jesus, and was accused of judging by that person. The goal for all Christians remains letting the Lord perfect us.
**Common Sense Talk
Follow Christ and you'll have eternal life. Reject him and you'll be lost forever. If you don't believe that God exists, then you just don't know the truth, remaining ignorant. There are people who believe that there is a God, but have no idea what that God is like, they are being ignorant as well. How's your common sense? Are you wise or foolish?
***Reminding All Christians***
We have a Lord who loves us to death and with whom nothing is impossible! So live to show that you believe in this truth!
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