Love, Life's Strength
Sometimes struggles help excavate the life that is essentially good, abundant and filled with love.
On the virtue of strength:
Instead of anger toward a perceived or misconceived opponent, paying attention to one's own weaknesses when unable to withstand opposition and enmity is a practice that is a gift in itself. For 'weakness is sin' and it is also a sacred calling to find ways to gather strength - including a kind of strength which will enable forgiveness of oneself and others, to bring light onto oneself to look at the positive qualities in oneself and others and most of all to connect with oneself and others through that which is real, and it is the grace and strength that is perhaps called love.
Dr. James Finley is a clinical psychologist in practice in Santa Monica. The deep sense of clarity and ease that his lectures brings... and a piece of St.John was what I once came across much to my fortune. In his lecture he explained about St.John of the Cross - who is said to be "a major figure of the Catholic Reformation" and who lived in the 14th century - and of an incident of his meeting with two people. One was at ease in relating to St.John and another was with whom St.John had difficulty with. And St.John of the Cross paid attention to the latter. Dr.Finley explains through his own personal power that transmits itself and reaches the listener, that upon St.John's death this man "went and changed his life"!
Upon waking up to one's own weaknesses, the path of gathering strength leads to the power for example, that Saint John has showed and given to mankind in living his own life.
posted by Bhamini @ 6:53 AM
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THE SEED
Our Choices
If you had a choice, right now, to choose to be with Christ Jesus in heaven would you choose to do so? Being human and having the power of choice, can we choose to ask God to grant us a wish? You see, there are three realms, earth, heaven, and hell. We live on the earth in the now, and we believe, as Christians, that at some point Christ will return to the earth and judge us in the final days. Between now and judgement day, death will end our stay on earth and God will judge our fate when that happens.
Christ said: "And all things whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive." What if, we asked God to stop this game that is being played out on earth, and grant us the one wish of living with him in heaven right now. What if, we choose to not allow Satan any more control over our lives and our future and made the decision to ask God to end this game. What if we, as human beings, with the power of choice, made a conscious decision to choose Christ Jesus, right now, over the day to day challenges and temptations that Satan offers.
Say, if in 2015, we were able to gather 9 billion, or 8 billion or 5 billion people, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Protestants, Jahovah Witnessers, Lutherians, Episcapalians, Muslims, Buddists, Hindu's, and every other worshiper, together to pray to God, asking him to bring us home. If we ask Jesus Christ to come, would he be with us??? If we asked him to bring us home to his kingdom in heaven, would we receive??? Do you want to stop playing this earthly game??? Our home is in heaven and not here on earth. Is that a challenge?? Can you see the vision???
Christ has said: "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." We can ask billions of people to take one moment in time to act as one, crying out to God, our heavenly Father, "Take us home." OH GOD, take us from the land of the Pharaohs!!! Take us from the hands of evil, bring us home to your kingdom!!! Can we ask strong enough?? Can we ask hard enough?? Can we ask loud enough??? Do you believe???
Christ said: "And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full." Do we want to be filled with eternal joy?? Why have we not asked???
Can you imagine how we can make this happen?? Can you understand the power that God has given us in order that we may choose our own destiny, right now. We don't have to wait until tomorrow, while Satan tricks and traps millions more souls into the fires of hell!!! The decision is ours. Can we choose?? Can we make this happen?? Can we start a holy movement around the world and set the date of our going home??? Or are our hearts hardened so much by this earthly realm that we can not conceive of the idea that God will grant our request???
Christ said: " I say to you further, that if two of you shall agree on earth about anything at all for which they ask, it shall be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I in the midst of them." Christ come into the mist of millions, of billions and grant our wish!!!
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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love!
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