Mar 11 Wed
Am I a son of God, really?
I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:
- When GOD wanted to create fish, He spoke to the sea.
- When GOD wanted to create trees, He spoke to the earth.
- But when GOD wanted to create man, He turned to HIMSELF.
- So, GOD said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
Note:
- If you take a fish out of the water, it will die; and when you remove a tree from the ground, it also dies.
- Likewise, when man disconnects himself from GOD, he dies.
- GOD* is our natural environment. We were created to live in HIS presence.
- We must be connected to HIM because only with HIM does life exist.
- Let us remain connected with GOD.
- Let us remember that water without fish is still water, but fish without water is nothing.
- The soil without the tree is still soil, but the tree without the soil is nothing....
- God without man is still God, but man without GOD is nothing.
God sent us Jesus to suffer and die for us. Our sins and lack of correspondence made our Lord's Passion more painful and harder to bear. We ought to be fully aware of this truth and feel personally responsible for the events that happened two thousand years ago. We cannot hide in the crowd. Instead, we must make reparation and atonement: Love is paid back with love.
We must return to Him at once, quickly, like children, even if the weight of our repeated rebelliousness overwhelms us. “Awareness that God is our Father brings joy to our conversion: it tells us that we are returning to our Father's house."
Appreciate God's unfathomable mercy and compassion. “Our Father God, when we come to him repentant, draws, from our wretchedness, a treasure; from our weakness, strength. What then will He prepare for us, if we don't forsake him, if we go to him daily, if we talk lovingly to him and confirm our love with deeds, if we go to him for everything, trusting in his almighty power and mercy?"
Our Lord's coming to earth, and his sufferings, are in themselves a sign of his infinite love. How much more love He shows by taking us as his adopted children, and making us share in his divine life, as heirs to his glory!
See what love God the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. He adopted us as his children - we who were only his servants. He bestows favor upon favor, love upon love. And He expects specific, sincere deeds of penance, and the best penance is to do what Jesus Christ is asking of us every day, at every moment.
God is YOUR Father. Every day, try to get closer to Him, through the word (read the Gospel) and through the bread (frequent the sacraments).