God, alone know what is truly best for us at all times. Rely first on God [the Creator] and His holy Will. Depend on everything else only as far as God permit. Too few have the trust that God demand. Many lack the confidence which He desire of us. Heaven's perfect life is the only lasting good for us and live our earthly life according to His commandments, and He shall not fail us. May we never depend too much on human beings.
People are human like us. There is a limit to their wisdom, their understanding, and their love. Only in God shall we perfect Understanding, all satisfying Love, and infinite Wisdom. If we can make God the First One in our daily life, there will be a great positive change in our outlook, our goodness and in everything around us. No longer will people have power to rob us of our interior peace. We will not need human company as much as before, we will enjoy a new freedom from the human distractions which at present worry or frighten us.
Do not care too much about who likes us and who does not. Why waste time worrying about who is for us and who is against us? Just do our best to please God, and He will be on our side. God will stand by us as long as we hate sin and avoid it in our daily life. When God with us, what does it matter who else is against us? Never be disturbed when others say things that hurt. If we thought more often of our sins, we might even agree with some of their remarks. Therefore, speak often with God, and men will impress us less than they do now. The more we advance in prayer, the less will we be tempted to talk against others. What they say or do against us, will seem so trivial when we have learned to join Him through prayer and recollection. God know what we really are. What men say about us, will not change what we are. Do not worry what anyone may think or say of us. Do not fear the judgments of those around us. Just do our best for God's sake and then, we will enjoy His peace.
In God alone will we find true peace and glory. We must not desire to please men, nor fear to displease them, when there is question of doing what is right. Only God's judgment is important. All men will be judge at the Last Judgment by the Lord.
How many friends stand by us when we need them? As soon as a sacrifice is required, so many of these so called friends are busy with other matters. No matter how dear any human may be to us, we still live our daily life pretty much alone. In the middle of the night or in moments of fatigue, or at times when others are absorbed in their own interests, we get a momentary awareness of being alone, of being unnoticed or forgotten by others. Do not overestimate earthly friendship. Sooner or later we must leave our friends, or they must leave us.
If we depend too much on any human companion, we will have to bear a painful separation later. Human friendship needs God blessing, therefore, try to help our friends come nearer to Him by our good example. Look forward to the purification and continuation of our earthly friendships in Heaven. With God blessing, earthly friendships can be a lasting thing. In Heaven they will bring a new kind of joy to us and our friends. All true friendship must be based on virtue and loyalty to Christ. Unless we are helping our friends in some way to live a better and moral life, we are not a true friend. So, people who are not helping us to become a better and moral person, are not real friends of ours, but useless acquaintances. Anyone who brings us closer to sin by words and actions, is an enemy in spite of any good intentions which he/she profess.
If we want the sincerest friendship, we will find it in God's saints. They are God's favorites because they were heroically loyal and faithful to God during their life on earth, and they made God's their favorites. They chose to love God more than their own life. They served Him with all the unselfishness and generosity at their command. They gave God the best service in their power, and they denied Him nothing.
Whether God sent them labor, hardship, failures, disappointments, sickness, they accepted all from His hand with complete willingness. Even after the saints have left this world, they are still interested in seeing God glorified by men. Their greatest desire for us is that we may some day join them in the perfect life and joy of Heaven. We honor God when we honor His friends. We will also be acting wisely if we request them to join us in asking for God help. What we may not deserve by ourselves alone, we may receive when the saints intercede for us. They are far more deserving of God favours than their selfish fellowmen.
Honor God's saints not only for the help which they can obtain for us, but also because they are the greatest heroes of all mankind. The greater the cause for which a man lives, the greater the man. The saints lived for God glory, for the praise of His goodness and the following of His truth. Theirs was the highest, most noble, and least selfish of all causes. They labored for Him alone, and loved Him more than any personal advantage or profit. As far as they could, they tried to do their work, hidden from the eyes of their fellowmen. They were working for God, and they desired no human recognition.
In their noble generosity, they could not offer God less. In God's saints we will find sincere friends and strong helpers before God. Their prayers and friendship will bring us extra helps from God's hand, helps which they earned by their glorious generosity with God. In their love for God we can see a wonderful example of continual self-giving to Him Who deserves all that we can offer.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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