On this last day of the first month of 2023, I look back on what I've done and what I've failed to do. I am happy that I love the Lord even more, but sorry that I failed to love him as much as I should. You can say that I have improved, but the improvement fell short. Nevertheless, following the Lord remains most exhilarating!
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
**Complaining No Longer Befitting
Today Tuesday, again the day for praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. After meditating upon the Passion Christ had undergone for our sake, I realized that we should not complain about anything anymore!
**Get Ready Now*
Know that Christ not only will come to judge all of us, he is also ever present with us. So get to know him now to be prepared for his judgment.
***Most Intimate Union
Communion experience. I received the one who loves me the most and whom I love the most. He became part of me and I, part of him. It's the greatest possible intimacy attainable only through the Lord with him.
**Only One We Need to Listen To*
When Jesus says "Be healed" and you are healed. When he says "Follow me" and you'll have eternal life. Everything he says to you is for your good and he is powerful. Listen to him and you'll have not a thing to worry about.
Monday, January 30, 2023
***How to Be Able to Love God?***
Simple and true:—You just let him love you! Let God love you as much as possible and you'll able to love him as much as possible.
***Greatest Consolation
Communion experience. Receiving the Lord in the Eucharist has to be the greatest consolation of my life, for it can overcome all my sorrows.
*God Makes Us Worry-Free
It's good to realize that there is nothing God cannot handle and he loves us and is always with us. This should be good enough to make us worry-free.
**Our Christian Duty
In today's Gospel reading from Mark 5, Jesus healed a demoniac and said to him, "Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you." It is our duty that we announce to all what the Lord has done for us. Then you say that he wasn't even around when all those things happened. Does this mean that if we don't see him, then it has nothing to do with him? Of course not. God is in control and nothing can happen without his allowance. If you don't believe, you have no faith.
***Obedience to God Begets Peace
Freedom lies in doing God's will. Solid proof: When we disobey the Lord, we lose our peace.
*Joining the Heavenly Family
Jesus is God the Father's only begotten Son and our only Lord. When we follow him, we become God's adopted sons and daughters.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
**Taming of the Self
A sinner unchecked is like a wild animal; he is self-centered and does what he wants to do for himself. Once you attain union with the Lord, he has tamed you, you might say. Now you listen to him and want to do his will only. Filled with the Holy Spirit, you willingly and joyfully want to please him alone. You now possess a super sharp conscience; you see all your imperfections and want to eradicate them all. No oppression is felt at any point. In fact, you feel completely liberated and renewed.
**Mind Your Own Business
This means that you become holy; love and serve God with all your heart, soul, and mind; and are to answer to him alone. Then you'll automatically know how to love others.
***Only One Thing We Need to Know*
There are so many things we shall never understand in this life. That's OK, as long as we know and believe that Christ is our Lord and Savior.
**Good Way to See Ourselves
Since the Lord God is all-knowing and created us, and we cannot understand anything without him teaching us, it is only proper and wise for us to see ourselves as kindergarten kids before him, alway listening to and learning from him. This'll teach us to remain humble too.
Saturday, January 28, 2023
***Good Rule for Acquiring Humility***
Whatever you attempt to do, if doing it will draw people's attention only to you and not to God, don't do it. This is a golden rule to follow if you wish decrease yourself and let the Lord increase in your life.
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