Most of you are unhappy because you never give God a chance to love you. You are in love only with yourself. I, I, I, I,... We do not save our souls alone, but only in conjunction with others.
The Lord Jesus Christ alone is the true head of men and angels. "In his body lives the fullness of divinity and in him you too find your own fulfilment in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power." - Colossians 2:9-10 - Hence Christian wisdom appears to be foolishness to the people of the world. But it is wiser than the philosophy of this age which comes to nothing. Christians 'speak the wisdom of God' which is revealed through His Spirit and received by His Spirit. Christians have the highest and most complete wisdom in Christ Jesus.
The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation but those of us who are on the way to see it as God's power to save. - 1 Corinthians 1:18 - For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. - 1 Corinthians 1:25 -
"As for me, brothers/sisters, when I came to you, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed. During my stay with you the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus and only about Him as the crucified Christ. Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great 'fear and trembling' and in my speeches and the sermons that I gave, there were none of the arguments that belong to philosophy; only a demonstration of the power of the Spirit. And I did this so that your faith should not depend on human philosophy but on the power of God.
But still we have a wisdom to offer those who have reached maturity; not a philosophy of our age, it is true, still less of the masters of our age which are coming to their end. The hidden wisdom of God which we teach in our mysteries is the wisdom that God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began. It is a wisdom that none of the masters of this age have ever known or they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; we teach what scripture calls; the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.
These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man/woman can only be known by his/her own spirit not by any other man/woman and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God to teach us to understand the gifts that He has given us.
Therefore we teach not in the way in which philosophy is taught but in the way that the Spirit teaches us; we teach spiritual things spiritually. Any unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God; he/she sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his/her understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man/woman on the other hand is able to judge the value of everything and his/her own value is not to be judged by other men. As scripture says; Who can know the mind of the Lord Jesus so who can teach him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ." - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 -
The doctrine of the person of Christ or Christology, is one of the most important concerns of Christian theology. The various aspects of the person of Christ are best seen by reviewing the titles that are applied to Him in the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. The title, Son of Man was Jesus' favorite way of referring to Himself. He may have done this because it was not a recognized title. This title means essentially "The Man". But as Jesus used it, it took on new significance.
Firstly, He used the title in a general way almost as a substitute for the pronoun "I". A good example of this usage occurred in the saying where Jesus contrasted John the Baptist who came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, with the Son of Man who "has come eating and drinking". - Luke 7:33-34 - Another probable example is the statement that "The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head". - Luke 9:58 - Jesus used the title to emphasize that "the Son of Man must suffer". - Mark 8:31 - It is implies that His suffering was foretold by the true prophets. It was indeed "written concerning the Son of Man that He is to suffer grievously and be treated with contempt". - Mark 9:12 - So when Jesus announced the presence of the betrayer at the Last Supper, Jesus declared, "Yes, the Son of Man is going to his fate, as sacred scriptures say he will just as it is written of Him". - Mark 14:21 - Later on the same evening Jesus submitted to his captors with the words, "The Scriptures must be fulfilled". - Mark 14:49 -
Finally, Jesus used the title Son of Man to refer to himself as the one exercised exceptional authority, that is, authority delegated to Him by God. "The Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins." - Mark 2:10 - Jesus declared, he exercised this authority in a way that made some people criticize him for acting with the authority of God: "The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath". - Mark 2:28 - The Son of Man appeared to speak and act in these cases as the representative man. If God had given man dominion over all the works of His hands then he who was the Son of Man in this special representative sense was in a position to exercise that dominion. Near the end of his ministry, Jesus spoke of his authority as the Son of Man at the end of time. Men and women "will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory" Jesus declared. - Mark 13:26 -
Jesus also stated to the high priest and the other members of the supreme court of Israel: "You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven". - Mark 14:62 - In the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible, Jesus referred to as the Son of Man by anyone other than himself. This occurred when Apostle/Saint Stephen, condemned by the Jewish Sanhedrin, saw "the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God". - Acts 7:56 - "I can see heaven thrown open' Stephen said 'and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God". I tell you if anyone openly declares himself for me in the presence of men the Son of Man will declare himself for him in the presence of God's angels. But the man who disowns me in the presence of men will be disowned in the presence of God's angels. - Luke 12:8-9 -
We do not save our souls alone, but only in conjunction with others. How do you think of God?
*** THE GREAT CHARACTERISTIC of life is growth. Youth and growth are synonymous; age and decay are synonymous. Life has therefore been properly defined as the sum of those forces which resist death. The law of growth was imposed on creation when God told man and the lower creatures of which he was the master, "Increase and multiply."
The same law of growth was imposed on super nature, on the Church, when our Lord told his apostles, "Preach the gospel to every creature." The Church was thus ordered to reproduce, to generate new life, to fill up the Kingdom of God, to make conquests from the outside, to increase progeny from within. For the Church that does not reproduce, that is not missionary, is weaving its own shroud. "You have not chosen me" said our Lord, "but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain."But just how is this Mystical Body of Christ to grow from a mustard seed into a great tree? Is it to grow by God pouring out his grace on human beings, while we the members remain inactive? Or is it to grow by members cooperating with the grace of God?
The law of nature suggests the answer. The human body develops from infancy to perfection, thanks principally to food and drink. But food and drink would not make the body grow unless the body already possessed a soul, which is the principle of life. Corpses do not grow, regardless of how much nourishment is poured into them. Neither does the soul alone suffice for life. The food that the living body needs comes to the body through the members of the body: the feet that walk to the table and the hands that touch it and take it into the organism. Thus the two factors combine for growth: the living soul, and the food given to the body through the help of the body itself.
The Church's soul is the Spirit of Christ, without which the Church would be an organization, not an organism. Its body is made up of all who have been baptized. But the Body and Soul alone are not enough to account for the growth of the Church. The Church, like the human body, depends for its development on the activity of its members. The fact that we share the life of Christ does not dispense us from the obligation of working with him for the increase of his Mystical Body.
Do not the branches reach out to absorb the sunlight: do not the hands and feet reach out to grasp the food? Why then should not our Lord, in like manner, make the growth of his Church dependent on its members? Mary was called to share in the Redemption, and the apostles were called to preach what Christ had preached, and Peter was called to be the rock of his Church. In fact, since the call of Abraham and the endowing of Adam with free will, it is by means of human beings that God deals with everyone.
As the diamond is polished only by the diamond, so it is by and through human natures that Christ spreads the Kingdom. The zealous souls, the apostles, the missionaries in far countries, the saintly souls in our own land, the sisters in our schools, the priests in our parishes: All Christ-loving men and women whose hearts are on fire with the love of God, are the eyes, the feet, and the hands of Christ which reach out to pagan, the dejected, the forlorn, the humanists, the sinners, the erring, to lift them into the Body where they may be quickened again into Life and Love and Truth by the vivifying power of the Spirit of Christ.
What nobler work could there be than zeal for souls? What finer way to spend oneself and be spent than in drawing souls to the love of their Lord and their God? The world holds in high repute physicians who restore health to the diseased, surgeons who amputate cancerous growth, teachers who bring history and grammar to the illiterate, social workers who rehabilitate the broken human earthenware of our streets, and scientists who extend the frontiers of our science beyond another star. All this is noble, but since there is a life beyond this one, let it be remembered that in the Book of Life they are written in letters of gold who do for souls what others have done for the body. The great Heart of Christ holds in eternal love 'spiritual' physicians, 'spiritual' teachers, 'spiritual' surgeons - those who bring to others his truth, knowledge, healing, and grace.
The responsibility to extend the Mystical Body devolves upon everyone of us. Any member who refuses the right of way to life by denying it facilities for transmission is guilty of a breach of trust. The privilege of being a cell in the Body is the privilege of a stewardship of service and of apostolate. Through loyalty to this missionary imperative each member may pay his debt of thanks for the gift of faith by endowing the future with that faith. Every living unit thus stands between past and future with obligations to both which it cannot default. What we have received we must pass on, not pocket. What has been given to us must not be confined, but cradled for growth. As guardians of the Divine Life that has come down to us since Pentecost, we must answer to God for misappropriation and impounding to our own ends. Every talent received must bear interest, and every grace received must furnish a highway along which the Gospel shall have a straight and unimpeded path for propagation.
We do not save our souls alone, but only in conjunction with others.
Distractions are thoughts, imaginations, feelings or sentiments, and desires which hold our attention longer than they deserve. At a time when we might direct our attention to God or to some profitable activity, we often find ourselves fighting to keep control of our thoughts. These distractions are due to the various experiences which we have in our daily life. By diminishing these experiences, we will also lessen the number of our distractions. True, we are obliged to give our attention to a number of people and attend to various duties and needs throughout the day. Yet, we need not give our attention to these people and things anymore than is necessary.
We could eliminate many a distraction without neglecting the necessary obligation of our daily life. If we really want to become more aware of God nearness to us throughout the day, we must do our part to gain so great a favour. Begin at once to examine what comes between us and God. See how many things we can eliminate in our daily life without neglecting our duties and obligations. Unless we make a determined effort to concentrate our attention on God, we will always be the victim of distractions.
Holy desires are worthless unless they are put into action. The saints tried so hard to keep their attention on God. They deliberately avoided all unnecessary distractions. They learned how to fix their minds on holy things throughout the day. They knew how to enjoy God's company. True, we must give our attention to our duties and obligations. So often, however, we give our attention to what is unnecessary. Is it any wonder that we find prayer hard or strange? We want to begin today to avoid unnecessary distractions, so that we may think more often of God and speak to Him more frequently throughout the day.
The grace of devotion is not just a holy feeling, nor is it a religious mood. It is an intelligent attachment of our will to God and do whatever He command or desire of us. This is a great grace. God will grant it to us if we make a sincere effort to turn our back on whatever hinders our spiritual progress. We must empty our heart of all useless interests in order to make room for God. Often it is such a small matter that prevents one from obtaining this grace. Misguided self-interest cuts many people off from this glorious gift. In fact, God desire us to have this grace. If we do not have it yet, it is because we have not yet prepared our soul for it. Pray for it and labor for it, and gain control of our feelings and unreasoning desires by acts of self-denial and self-sacrifice.
Above all, begin a determined battle against the outstanding faults in our daily life. Acquiring this grace of true devotion, we will find many things easy and light which now seem difficult and impossible. We will never again lose sight of God power, wisdom, and love, and we will consider it a privilege to follow His Will. If we make a firm and persevering effort to abandon our foolish love for unnecessary distractions, God will give us the gifts. From then on, we will have a steady faith, hope and love to Jesus Christ. We will no longer depend on feelings or moods, but instead, follow God's Will intelligently and faithfully even when we do not feel like doing so.
Thus, live our daily life in God presence by trying to be constantly aware of His nearness to us. The more we strive to develop this virtue, the more God will help us to acquire it. With this grace we will grow in love and kindness toward others. Our faults will become less and less frequent, and our goodness will shine before the world. This daily labor for virtue requires a continual effort. We must go on trying, like a man swimming against the current. To stop trying, even for a little while, is to lose ground. Without a determined and constant effort there will be no progress.
Do not be afraid of work, inconvenience, suffering, our way to Heaven was the way of prayer, work, patience and suffering. To earn Heaven we must become God-like in our daily life. It seems impossible, yet God Himself wants to lead us on toward this goal which so many have had received it. A lively consciousness of God's presence will help us to control and direct our likes and dislikes. Gradually there will be less and less unguarded moments, less slips into our old faults. We shall gradually come to see God's Will in every event that comes along and He desires to grant us this wonderful grace. We must prepare ourselves for it by beginning today to practice acts of faith in God's presence, and acts of self-offering in our daily activities. Too many peoples make a feeble effort to improve themselves, and they give up because of repeated failures. Others claim they feel too small and unworthy of such gift from God. Their real reason, however, is not a virtuous one. They are selfish and afraid of the effort required or the sacrifice involved.
Lord Jesus Christ, let Your holy grace fall on this sinful heart of ours, so that we may love most what is most lovable, know best what is most important, and desire first what is most valuable. [our soul] Let us fear and remove whatever draws us away from You. Teach us to pray, and help us to love Your company, and to seek it as often as possible. Make us aware of Your presence throughout the day. Amen.
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.
Do you think of God as Someone on a throne who sulks and pouts and becomes angry if you do not worship and glorify Him and who is happy and grateful to you when you go to Church and pray to Him?
Or do you think of God as a benevolent grandfather who is indifferent to what you do so long as you enjoy yourself?
If you hold either of these two views of God you cannot understand either why you should worship God or how God can be good if He does not let you do as you please.
Let us start with the first difficulty: Why worship God?
The word "worship" is a contraction of "worthship". It is a manifestation of the worth in which we hold another person. When you applaud an actor on the stage, or a returning hero, you are "worshiping" him. Every time a man takes off his hat to a lady, he is "worshiping" her. Now to worship God means to acknowledge in some way His Worth, His Power, His Goodness, and His Truth.
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. If there is no God, then you are a god; and if you are a god and your own law and your own creator, then I am an atheist. The basic reason there is so little worship of God today is because man denies he is a creature. But we have not yet answered the question: "Why should you worship God?" You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
If you are a father, do you not like to receive a tiny little gift, such as a penny chocolate cigar, from your son? Why do you value it more than a box of Corona Coronas from your insurance agent? If you are a mother, does not your heart find a greater joy in a handful of yellow dandelions from your little daughter, than in a bouquet of roses from a dinner guest? Do these trivialities make you richer? Do you need them? Would you be imperfect without them? They are absolutely no utility to you! And yet you love them. And why? Because by these gifts your children are "worshiping" you; they are acknowledging your love, your goodness, and by doing so they are perfecting themselves; that is, they are developing along the lines of love rather than hate, thankfulness rather than ingratitude, and therefore they are becoming more perfect children and happier children as well.
As you do not need dandelions and chocolate cigars, neither does God need your worship. But if their giving is a sign of your worth in your children's eyes, then is not prayer, adoration, and worship a sign of God's worth in our eyes? And if you do not need your children's worship, why do you think God needs yours? But if the worship of your children is for their perfection, not yours, then may not your worship of God be not for His perfection, but yours? Worship is your opportunity to express devotion, dependence, and love, and in doing that you make yourself happy.
A lover does not give gifts to the beloved because she is poor; he gives gifts because she is already in his eyes possessed of all gifts. The more he loves, the poorer he thinks his gifts are. If he gave her a million, he would still think he had fallen short. If he gave everything, even that would not be enough. On of the reasons he take price tags off his gifts is not because he is ashamed, but because he does not wish to establish a proportion between his gift and his love. His gifts do not make her more precious, but they make him less inadequate. By giving, he is no longer nothing. The gift is his perfection, not hers. Worship in like manner is our perfection, not God's.
God would still be perfectly happy if you never existed. God has no need of your love, for there is nothing in you, of and by yourself, which makes you lovable to God. Most of us are fortunate to have even a spark of affection from our fellow creatures. God does not love us for the same reason that we love others. We loves others because of need and incompleteness. But God does not love us because He needs us. He loves us because He put some of His love in us. God does not love us because we are valuable; we are valuable because He loves us.
God thirsts for your love, not because you are His waters of everlasting life, but because you are the thirst, He the waters. He needs you only because you need Him. Without Him you are imperfect; but without you, He is still Perfect. It is the echo that needs the Voice, and not the Voice that needs the echo.
Now we come to that other misunderstanding concerning God which interprets His Goodness as indifference to justice, and regards Him less as a loving father than as a doting grandfather who likes to see His children amuse themselves even when they are breaking things, including His commandments.
Too many assume that God is good only when He gives us what we want. We are like children who think our parents do not love us because they do not give us revolvers or because they make us go to school. In order to understand goodness, we must make a distinction between getting what we 'want' and getting what we 'need'. Is God good only when He gives us what we 'want' or is He good only when gives us what we 'need' even though we do not want it? When the prodigal son left the father's house he said, "Give me." He judged his father's goodness, by the way the father satisfied his 'wants.' But when he returned a much wiser young man, he merely asked for what he 'needed': a restoration of his father's love; and hence he said: "Make me."
The thief on the left judged the goodness of Our Lord Jesus by His power to take him down from his cross; that is what he 'wanted.' The thief on the right judged the goodness of Our Lord Jesus by His power to take him into Paradise; that is what he 'needed.'
The Goodness of God means that God gives us what we 'need' for our perfection, not what we 'want' for our pleasure and sometimes for our destruction. As a sculptor, He sometimes applies the chisel to the marble of our imperfect selves and knocks off huge chunks of selfishness that His image may better stand revealed. Like a musician, whenever He finds the strings too loose on the violin of our personality, He tightens them even though it hurts, that we may better reveal our hidden harmonies. As the Supreme Lover of our soul He does care how we act and think and speak. What father does not want to be proud of his son? If the father speaks with authority now and then to his son it is not because he is a dictator, but because he wants him to be a worthy son. So long as there is love, there is necessarily a desire for the perfecting of the beloved.
And that is precisely the way God's goodness manifests itself to us. God really 'loves' us, and because He loves us He is not disinterested. He no more wants you to be unhappy than your own parents want you to be unhappy. God made you not for His happiness, but for yours, and to ask God to be satisfied with most of us as we really are is to ask that God cease to love.
Think of the thousands you have met whom you could never love. You may even wonder how their mothers could love them. But God loves them! He even loves them more than He loves us who look down on them with disdain and scorn.
If you want to know about God, there is only one way to do it: get down on your knees. You can make His acquaintance by investigation, but you can win His love only by loving. Arguments will tell you God exists, for God's existence can be confirmed by reason; but only by surrender will you come to know Him intimately.
That is one of the reasons why so many professors in secular institutions have no religion. They know about God, but they do not know God. And because they do not 'love' what they already know, because they do not act on their belief, even the little they have is taken away. They rattle the milk cans of theology but they never drink the milk. Atheism is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief comes from sin, not from reason.
This is not a broadcast about God, it is a plea to love God. Worship Him because He is your perfection, more than knowledge is the perfection of the mind. Love Him because you cannot be happy without love. Love Him quite apart from all you are, for you have the right to love Him in your heart, even though you do not always succeed in loving Him in your acts. Think a little less about whether you deserve to be loved by Him; He loves you even though you are not deserving - it is His love alone that will make you deserving. It is love that confers value. "Nobody loves me" is the equivalent of being valueless. Hence the more important the person who loves you, the more precious is your value. You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God. Most of you are unhappy because you never give God a chance to love you. You are in love only with yourself.
*** BY VENERABLE / ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN ( 1895 to 1979 )
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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
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/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
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