Love is Available and an Option of Freewill
( I am in Love with the One who was the Highest Achiever of Loving Acts, who is currently Achieving the Highest Performance of Loving Acts, and He will Always and in All Ways be the Highest Performer of Loving Acts. He is God the Son, Jesus Christ, in Unity with God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit. He is personal to every individual. Here are the Keys to His Kingdom, the Kingdom of God.)
What Every Confirmed Catholic Probably_Knows in Time
Disclaimer: * The is an unofficial publication of a Roman Catholic believer in God the Father, God the Son who is Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. It can be used to act as a guide and incentive for further pursuit of your own spiritual life or to share with a group in pursuit of the truth of God is Love, but has not been vetted as a Holy Object by the Authorities of our Church. My hope in beginning this document was to make a "starting point" for the masses unleaned in the way of "Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who isl Always To Come", the name "Yahweh" translated into English as I sense it. For reference, I have studied with multiple Christian/Catholic faiths after attending "12 Step" groups as using their advice to be "quick to learn from the religous, but, take what you can learn and leave the rest." To be fair, I ask the reader to do no more and no less than the same with this document. A song is included with this document, but it is not complete, as I see it, and I am not sure I am a competent enough musiction to create the song I hear in my head with all the definitions of Love that the Bible holds in the song's lyrics. One of my friends came up with a beautiful crucifix image and the opening statement of this document is used on the back side of the shirt declaring our belief. Perhaps I can share it's design, though the artwork is not ours to give away. I will try to make contact with the artist to see what their philosophy of faith is, and, if possible, share it here. f The artwork on the front cover came from a general Internet browsing, and is an image I have seen in use by other Roman Catholic websites. Please keep in mind that this document is the BASICS of what I have come to believe as a Catholic/Christian who worships Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come.
Apology: this message could not wait for a final formatting and is currently (June 9, 2024) still being actively edited attempting to clarify it's content and how it conveys it to you. Some additional content is currently on the horizan but I already have hope that the content here is enough to direct those who find this site, both young and old, cradle Catholic/Christians or late spiritual bloomers, into action with a closer relationship to our God who is "Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come". Again, please feel free to use what you can and leave the rest. I will be building a chat forum for those wishing to comment on the content and its purpose amoungst other planned improvements for the modern age. Please come back from time to time if you find it intriguing to do so.
Love is Important
What is love? It is so important to know this, that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, took on the punishments and death sentence of all people for sinning, not treating one another with love, to show exactly what a Lover can do with a human life, to shock those who push Love away and go into forever after this life having given little love in this life, a preparation for this forever after life without end. Those who believe Jesus can and did in fact do what the Bible says He did and does, just to restore Love to each creation when the creation drives a wedge between Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come sadly entering forever after life and find Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always To Come gives you exactly what you ask for and live for even if the creation, having freewill, does not use the Biblical guide that Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come leaves available to guide humans into life so great that Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come and the Creation will Love each other Forever After in Ecstatic Positive Perfection for BOTH the Creation and Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, Who is Always to Come with faith, hopes and love as a joyful permanent foundation.
So, the Bible makes us aware of one "person" more than all others, and offers a way to relate to this "person" and a Trinity of Eternal Perfect Lovers Who Are diffent in their roles in life but are as One in Eternal Perfect Love Which Is. This "person" came to Earth solely to take the shame and death we deserve (more on this under Salvation) and therefore brings the justice of Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who Is Always To Come to be paid in full for that which we cannot pay, and returns believers with faith back into Loving communion with Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who Is Always To Come and the created man and mankind. He, yes the Only Begotten Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who Is Always To Come, Jesus (again more on Him to come), stated that the most important law of all is, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all of your mind, all of your soul and all of your strength.” Further, Jesus stated, “The second law is much the same as the first; Love your neighbor as yourself. This is the sum total of the law.” If you give love, then you will never break any law. So, it is pretty important. Note that both these statements are quotes from the Old Testament – in the Pentateuch (Duet 6:5 and Lev 19:18). These “laws” are included in Jewish beliefs, Muslim beliefs, and Catholic/Christian beliefs. I have found, though, a missing in my own understanding of what Love is until just before writing this document, even having grown up in a Christian home. It is often glossed over and assumed that people today are intuitively Loving from my experiences and I imagine it was the same in Moses’ day when the Pentateuch was given. While I know nothing of fairness from God or man, I hope an investigation of what the Bible says love is and what love is not will help.
Do you want to know what we Catholics and Christians mean by "salvation" and from what?
First off, “Salvation“ is meant as freedom from fear. In this life, if you have ever been afraid, whether from horrible pain, broken dreams and broken hearts, unwanted loss, sudden unwanted surprises, or punishments you believe are unfair despite even though the simplest disobdience to one's Creator being justly the immediate termination of your life and the moving away from a loving bond with Him, or any other disappointment and dissolution within the living of your life are all reasons to have "The Fear of the Lord". In truth, these are from choosing the deception of Satan and the breaking of one or more "laws" which are in fact the willful disobience to an openingly loving Creator who knows that the best life you can have is to follow and obey His guidence. If a product is made and has a "maintence" schedule for you to follow to get the most out of the product, it is suggested that you follow the maker's guidance. Likewise, God made you and is not a liar. How can the Creator give you, His creation, anything other than the best freewill maintenance schedule to follow. The reality is humans are His most wanted creation to live with now and in the forever-after-never-ending-life-to-come in a way that pleases both Himself and you to the maximum. He won't give it to you though. Your uniquely human gift is "freewill". You must want what He offers and accept what He gives. He will never take from you what you will not freely give to Him. The value of us humans in being His most desired forever-after-never-ending-life-to-come-intimate-companions is unparreled in the Heavens, even with His angels included. Unfortunately, not every creation strives to be what He wants them to be and these will find the coming life to be less than the best He can give to them. This is not to say that they will be tortured or tormented harshly unceasingly or, especially, that God will not still give the love to them that they accepted in this life and was therefore prepared for and given to them in the life to come, but there is a "formula" to obey that can give you the fully prepared maximum love and joy in living in the forever-after-never-ending-life-to-come-intimacy of companionship with Him. Unfortunately, sometimes the "Fear of the Lord" does not end for those who do not seek a remedy to their rebellion against God's infinite wisdom and acceptance of His full restoration of maximum love. Read on to understand what the "formula" is and take the plunge, if you see it's truthfulness. I will bring this up in this document later, but for reference here, within the Bible, God is consistently shown to have four major characteristics. These are Love, Justice, Mercy and Truth. Almost always, it is justice that humans get their fear from. We just don't believe that there should be horrible pain, broken dreams and broken hearts, unwanted loss, punishment that hardens your heart, sudden unwanted surprises, or any other disappointment and dissolution of living in life. We cannot believe that we deserve this, but, given that an Eternal, Perfect Lover is God and Creator, show that they do not understand what their "freewill" actually gives them. They who live in rebellion against His desires or laws have no authority to change what He institutes. "Freewill" only gives us the ability to choose in this lifetime how close or distant we want to be from the loving desires of intimacy He wants to be in in the neverending life we are to live and share with Him. His authority is absolute not because He demands it, but because there is no other capable of be the Absolute Creator and God. What He says is made so, regardless of what it used to be or if it is a new creation. Nothing challenges the ability. It is a GOOD THING that what He is at heart is Loving, Just, Merciful, and Truthful. For in these we find the human existence. Let's dive into Scripture to look at the "formula" of salvation as the Book of His Word to all creations shows.
Proverbs 9:10 “Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment.” (Fear is the first realization that we are not fully in a state of grace (having been forgiven of all our sins and joyfully become obidient to the Guidance of Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is) and we are receiving unwanted stress to get our attention and bring from Him what is best for us. It is written that Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is disciplines those He loves. If we do not get disciplined, it is because we have driven God out of our life; the greatest sadness of all. Don’t fear discipline, but learn from it.
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1 John 4:18 “Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love." (Overcoming fear is accomplished by Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is and you moving into perfect love for one another)
Next in the "formula," we have these two promises of forever-after-never-ending-life-to-come-as-intimate-companions-of-Eternal_Perfect_Lover_Who_Is-scriptures in John:
“John 3:16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son (The Only Begotten Eternal Perfect Lover of Eternal Perfect Lover, Jesus the Anointed), so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” (God saves us through the part of Himself that is the “Son of God” role. God has three main roles like a person may have three jobs. A person may be, for example, a “construction worker”, a “sales clerk” and a “bicycle repairman”. For God these are “Father”, “Son”, and “Holy Spirit”. This is known as the “Trinity”.)
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John 17:3 “And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth." (Eternal Life in itself can be scary as the possibility of what we fear now may cause one to fear bad things almost certainly happening to one’s self repeatedly in the future. This is why God goes to such great lengths to get us aware of Him and what will work to live forever after with Him without negative burdens to handle throughout forever amounts of time. We do not have to continue the cycle of sin and punishment that creates our fears of forever after life if we understand and employee the “secrets” disclosed here. Also note that having “eternal life” (“forever after” life for creations with a “starting time”) can be had by “knowing” God, and especially the “Son of God” role of God).
1 John 4:8 “But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (Our first lesson on “forever after life” is that we must learn what “love” is and then we must “enact loving behaviors” to obtain the right kind of “forever after life”.)
So, to “know” God is to know Love. A creation is saved to ever-after good life by knowing and doing loving things because God, as Jesus, shows us perfect and endless self-sacrifice and goodness - LOVE. Love is the only method to turn rebellious humans back to our Creator. God asks us to make Love our highest aim that we may ultimately become perfected to eternal goodness and live with Him again. God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and Jesus, God the Son, is my only hope – a Trinity God of Love. This Trinity is God precisely because they never do anything their con-substantial parts are not in complete agreement about.
I Cor. 13:4-8 “4. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5. or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”
Psalm 108:4 “For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.”
Prov. 10:12 “Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses.”
I Peter 4:8 “Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
John 15:10 “When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.”
I John 4:18 “Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced His perfect love.”
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. (The same Power that raised Jesus from the grave is capable of raising us as well, for Jesus was raised by Love, which is our God Creator)
Romans 13:10 “Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.”
Sirach 40:24 “Family and friends are for times of trouble, but acts of charity (love) rescue better than either.”
Deut 6:5 “And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.”
Lev 19:18 “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite , but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” (This is addressed to the “fellow Israelite” but it also includes Christian/Catholic members added to the “priestly” Israelite family/nation. A bit of theology is needed to realize Christian/Catholics are “grafted” into the “Israelite” family/nation to replace “unproductive or withered branches who did not take advantage of the Vine (Jesus and His mandate to Love) for life and purpose. The purpose God created the Israelite family/nation for it to be a “priestly nation” for the rest of the world to find God (The Eternal Perfect Lover) through which this status meant that the Israelite family/nation had to rise up with Love beyond that of the dark times of humanity and give us the "formula" of salvation and the eternal value of Love.)
Matthew 22:36-40 36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” 37 Jesus replied, “’You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
Romans 4:20-25 “20 Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. 21 He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises. 22 And because of Abraham’s faith, God counted him as righteous. 23 And when God counted him as righteous, it wasn’t just for Abraham’s benefit. It was recorded 24 for our benefit, too, assuring us that God will also count us as righteous if we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.” (Only a perfect human could pay the punishment penalty in full for an unrighteous sinner. Everyone else up until Jesus’ arrival had to pay for the sins they committed themselves. Since the “wages of sin is death” and that applies to all sin, no matter how insignificant we are lied to about them being, no person who has broken the laws of Love can pay another person’s sin penalty. Since the time of Jesus, we have still continued to sin, but, Jesus said on two occasions in the Gospels that the people He was addressing should, “go and sin no more.” We can stop sinning, and with Jesus being willing, we can pay a part of our punishment for our past sins while Jesus pays for what we cannot cover (like death and pain too great for us), until, as God states, all punishments are fully completed. At this time, the time when human sin ends, all creations will all be in the state of “forever after” existence. If we learned to love, we will be in good shape for this and the more acts of love that we accomplish, the greater enjoyment the “forever after” life will hold for us.)
John 15:9-17 9 “I [Jesus] have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.”
Romans 5:8 “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”
Okay, one more take on Salvation. I will try to combine this more cleanly in the future, but, as noted, some of this document is dynamic still. This was laid on my heart this morning before Mass: The Merciful Love of God I can often be heard telling someone that, "God has four main characteristics, namely, Love, Justice, Mercy, and Truth." I then explain that, "God has spoken that all sin comes with penalties, including death for every sin and that these penalties all will be completed without fail. He is God and this is simply necessary and right. We should never sin for multiple reasons, but the biggest reason is that God's plan for us would not only be sinless and grant us true freedom and our best life is found there too; our highest and most lasting total happiness. Unfortunately, all people sin at least once in their lives and some people sin so much that there is little to like about them and they become isolated from the greater part of humanity. But God knew what to do about what He could rightly ignore and confine people in death with no visits from Him leaving Love to it's lowest amount. If that is hard to understand, just think of death row murderers. They are usually confined away from most human contact, are often hated by the victim's remaining loved ones, and finally they are executed for the crime. Now take this to the level where all humans deserve this kind of treatment but God wants to stop this and has made a way to get us off death row and even to reintegrate us back into the most loving way He has for us; specifically He makes us His adopted children. He is our Father and we all form a family! So, how does this happen? God sent His only begotten Son to take on the punishments our sins must pay to be able to be released and fully awakened to His Love once again. To clarify this a bit more, let's look at a "begotten Son" verses a "made creation". God begets Jesus, God creates people. Man begets children , man makes a table. Jesus has all the Qualities of God, including no start, no end, and full Deification. God has three authorities. One is when we address Him as "Father". One is when we address Him as "Son". The third is when we address Him as "Holy Spirit". We can be assured that no matter which authority we address in God, we will always get the same overall response, "Eternal Perfect Love!". If you cry out over the heartbreak of this world, rest assured, Jesus' passion for suffering is larger than the penalties of all the sins of all human creations. He binds the broken-hearted and then He heals them. He completes all punishments that our sins create that are too much for us to do ourselves, and that especially means He dies for each sin to fulfill the death penalty that every sin requires. The "why" of this may be that He wants human's freewill love and not emotionless robotic life for His constant efforts in liberating those who believe this about Him. It is tough to live through punishment but in my punishment, I find that Jesus is the One who is suffering the most and that I am suffering only a part of what He is. I also notice that He has promised reward for doing so, a reward of part of His Eternal Glory and a perfected forever after this life life maximized with all the Love we can receive and to maximize all the Love we can give! Hallelujah! I love God!
There is a third type of suffering that the Bible describes. The end of Acts 5 contains the information. The Apostles were imprisoned for preaching, teaching and healing by the power of using Jesus' name. The Angel of the LORD came and released them and told them to go back to the temple and continue preaching and teaching, and they did so. The Israelite Sanhedrin convened and came to the decision to not put them to death, but had them flogged instead, and again ordered them to not preach, teach and heal in the name of Jesus. The Apostles went away rejoicing that had been considered worthy to join in the suffering of Jesus. This third type of suffering is for people who are beyond doubt that Jesus is God the Son and that their life is best lived in obedience to Jesus even to the point of death.
A Brief Commentary on What is happening when we hurt
Where is God when it hurts? I know there are three types of suffering we can be subject to that I have found in the Bible. One is receiving discipline/punishment for our own sinful actions. This type of suffering for the believer Jesus aids us with. All sin requires a death which we cannot pay and for which Jesus was sent to perform a death to cover the just punishment for all of us, but some sin also requires other forms of punishment that can be too much for us also. Jesus pays all that our unique designs cannot pay on our own but get us messed up into commiting. God is a God of justice but He knows us and loves us and fulfills the never ending law by doing what we cannot do. His passion for the suffering brings out unlimited grace for repentant believers. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. May you be aware that you are Loved by someone (Jesus) who knows and understands all your pain as well as that of the whole world! The second kind of suffering is the example of Job. He was a good man having nearly no sin and God knew him to be His. But Satan (the accuser) claimed that Job was only a man of God because he had it too good by God's doing. Take away all the good things in his life and Job would surely curse God and die. At least that was what Satan said. God, in infinite wisdom, let Job go far beyond loss and into catastrophic grief. Before Jesus, angels outranked humans though believers are given the status of "Children of God" and at times, "the status of Jesus Himself" by Jesus' declarations which thus enables us to outrank angels. That is another message. Here, with Job, we see Satan destroy all of Job's children whom he prayed for daily "in case they MIGHT sin" he wanted God to show them mercy and discipline that they too be God's obedient creations. Despite his prayers, they were called home to God for Job to rejoin them in his life after this one. When God finally convinced Satan about two years after Satan took virtually all that was important to Job that Job still wouldn't curse God and die, God gave him back double of all he had lost. I do not know if "replacement" children can heal the wounds of losing already born children, but it seemed to have and Job never gave up on God though he cried incessantly until God came to Him personally that God was being unfair with him. His kind of suffering was from a challenge, as stated, by higher ranking beings in God's Kingdom. This is the second kind of suffering I have found. So, if you have come this far with me, perhaps you can figure out the third form of suffering that God and us can go through. This can only be done by loving believers with Jesus in their hearts. In this form of suffering, we suffer with Jesus. We do not forget that we cannot pay the full price for our sins and nobody else can either but Jesus, but we believers do grow in our ability to handle more punishment for our sins and commit less of them so we do not have to endure any punishments. We have infinite grace which Jesus gives to believers that allows us to sin and not lose our salvation but it is far better to have pleasure without problems, to allow yourself to be loved and to love than to use your freewill to chase love away by not sinning than to live recklessly relying on this infinite grace. This maturing of our spiritual beings allows our love to join in with a suffering believer and do something to remove some of the burden of their punishments from them. For example, we pay a fine for our child's speeding ticket instead of making them spend many nights in jail, though Jesus does spend time in jail since our child is not ready to pay that price and neither are we, in this example, because God's laws are absolute. A breaking of one of His laws requires full punishment completed before a complete restoration of privileges is returned. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, and, smaller but just as real, praise to you Believers for taking on some of the burdens of my punishments for the quicker restoration of my privileges after my sins in my life! This is selfless love. It leaves me facing near suicidal depression when I have gotten involved in taking on the punishments of others, such is the attack of demons. so I don't recommend just running into the boxing match leading with your chin, so to speak. Instead, work with your team of spiritual advisors and counselors. Volunteer to help Christian outreach programs until you grow more mature and aware of what you are capable of. But, move with the fullness of the Holy Spirit in you when moved to do so and love those you can take a risk to love. Nothing changes the world and it's sin stain faster than this absolute love. I don't know if any of this will help you, but our suffering is gone when we know Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is and the One He sent forth, the Only Begotten Eternally Perfect Lover Jesus or Eternally Perfect Lover. I offer up prayers and service if you reach out to me with requests. Eternally Perfect Lover loves you and so do I! R
Love is Commentary
(A last note from me, the compiler of these thoughts added to the Scriptures, is this. God has four main attributes in the Bible: Love, Justice, Mercy, and Truth. The Greatest Mercy is that which Jesus gave/gives us. For God is Just and must be Just. We cannot pay the price of unjust actions and God cannot lose His “Godship”. The solution is someone who can pay the penalties of our unjust actions for us. God takes an active role in the lives of creations. When we hurt God, it is either by “original sin” or by not obeying commands that God gives to us to experience and have the best of forever after life. God hurts because God knows that you are hurting yourself if you do not love, not because of anything God has done. God knew this would come for human creations. The temptation to use our freewill to deviate outside God’s loving commands is such that all humans since the time of human beginnings have done this. At times, virtually the whole human creations on planet Earth were simultaneous guilty of this. And God HURT. BUT, and this is a HUGE BUT, God chose with God’s freewill, to LOVE US and not demand PERFECTION from us which would have been forever after life with pain beyond measure for all humans. Instead, God through Jesus has taken on all the pain and warped suffering of our injustices and asks us to Love like God does. It is the only way to end the wrong thinking and to give to God, who is all good all of the time, the entirety of our Love as God deserves. At least, I owe God this. You will have to make up your mind if you have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God and what you can do about it. It is my hope to wake up the whole creation to glorify God for God’s great variety of creation and the ability to subdue it from taking an irreversible unloving turn. He alone is worthy of complete submission. My God, My Creator. My profound awakening to the One who has been here with me from the start of my life! May You bless Yourself, God and All Readers, for I cannot fathom how to do You justice for Your guiding hand in my forever after life!) Let me add this. It is a testimony in broad terms of God raising me to enlightenment after He, because of His love for me, accepted me attempting to run my own life without the daily communications of my childhood. I hit some really hard times, including addictions, crime and punishment, and many failed mating relationships, to highlight a few of the, to me, bigger sins and unloving, selfish choices leading to the “Crossroads” of either accepting that I had used my freewill to commit these and I therefore deserved my punishments and hard times, or I could turn to blaming God and being unappreciative for the rich tapestry of life God provided me and be angry and mean spirited, pushing away God and people. It was a long road that I wasn’t sure I could recover from to become loving like my inner child believed I was before ignoring God and, as my inner child further expected, my adult self would always be, until my inner child won the war and I had to accept personal responsibility of the outcome of life without a close relationship with God, at that time. I neither loved God, myself, or the whole of humanity as God taught in the faith of my understanding found in the Bible and those who lived by it that I had met and admired. I truly existed without believing that I was worth the title of God’s adopted, but treated with the same level of love as His only begotten Son Jesus is, son. Perhaps this next paragraph can help sum it up: So, Love. Where is God when you hurt? Where is God when you are afraid? These two questions and probably many similar questions aren't the real question at all. The real question is this: "Will I be loving when I hurt unjustly or justly like Jesus did?" and, "Will I be remembered as loving long after I am gone from this life and into the next like Jesus is?". The highest honor I can conceive of is to live and be remembered as loving! So many get to the point, the "Crossroads" where we are facing strife and they irrevocably get angry and they say, "I just wish I could go to sleep and never wake up" and "If there is a God, He is evil." and "Everybody has it better than me, and I hate them." and some will even do the unthinkable and commit suicide to"really show the world and it's people that they wronged the wrong person and the whole world doesn't deserve to have them here." Jesus is the only real human and God with a choice and He came to return real choice to any who would love in this life so He can love and serve the people who do overcome their struggles in life forever after this life." For those who can claim to have walked away from the "Crossroads" and turned loving, may you, for one, know that I am in awe of you and I humbly acknowledge you as the heroes who worked to help me see this and turn my life around. Living without seeking personal gain for the promise of knowing an eternity is coming after this life with Jesus doing for me what I cannot do myself is all the reward I could possibly want. He got me to feel the power of loving someone and something and make a personal choice to do a life that is so much more core solidifying. Studying Jesus is salvation and prayer in Him and through Him and for Him is the best life regardless of what happens to me. I have overcome. I am whole! This is my testimony today. PLACEHOLDER: Suffering comes certainly from being unloving, but it has also come from times when "higher order" beings become jelous of other lifeforms and declare to God that these lesser beings only live lives of devotion to Him because God treats them so well. Because God cannot lie whether these higher order beings (like angels are to unbelievers and Old Testament people) and He loves, God has allowed radical suffering to occur in human people's lives for a time. The story of Job (Job being the oldest book in the Bible, by the way) shows this. Job was devotely godly and innocent of what he believed was God punishing him with great loss. In truth, God was showing Satan how wrong he was in believing that Job would curse God and die if all the good things in his life save for his wife and one good friend and Job suffered immensely. When Satan (the accuser in this case) admitted defeat in the matter, God immediately heal Job's heart and rewarded him doubly in children and wealth of the day, his main losses. Job instantly regretted accusing God of unjust behavior even as God defended Job to those who claimed he must have sinned and was the worst kind of sinner because of self-righteousness and pride. Job had been godly and God knew Job's hurt but protected him so that after the trial held by Satan, that God could come in and heal him and bring him closer to Himself still for Job was that worthy of the tightening of the love bond between Himself and Job. So, suffering can be because of ones own unloving actions and freewill pulling away from loving bonds, or it can be because someone else of a higher order that you challenges you motivations in being godly and loving towards God. I think there are more ways to suffer because I had a third one in mind when I wanted to write this update on the topic, but I don't know what it was at the moment. Just know that a sick child from birth is probably not your fault, but a chance for you to show how loving and gracious you truly are to those in need and to which God will return your child to you in the life after this one in perfect health and bond to you for such an exciting life to come. This is dedicated to "Ben", who heard my ramblings about my belief that all suffering comes from our own unactivated lovingness (self-sacrifice and graciousness), when the Bible certainly shows that suffering comes from at least the two types mentioned here. Paul suffered actively his whole life because of commiting sin. He "was a slave to sin because he did what he did not want to do". He tried praying and working on his spiritual life, but, in the end, God told him, "my grace is sufficient for you". God was forgiving his still active sins and telling him this issue(s) would continue for his whole life despite his work. He did not tell Paul why and we do not know what the sin(s) were, just that having active sins does not necessarily mean that you are not being saved to a close and loving forever-after-this-life-life with God. Some sins prepare us to relate to those who could come away from them if a "pier" can give them some insight into the same sin from personal experiences. I think this is a form of suffering, because we think we, as humans, can control all our actions that we commit yet we hurt others and cannot stop and we hate ourselves and whatever purpose that shows us these "catastrophies" as we see them when God has a remedy all waiting for us either later in this life or for the forever-after-our-creation-and-use-in-this-world-to-the-life-to-come-we-were-created-for-and-became-the-life-wanted-serve-God's-function-in-bringing-many-many-many-of-this-harvest-of-human-creations-to-His-eternity-and-our-foreverness-with-him-after-creation-that-we-are-met-to-be-because-of-His-as-yet-not-fully-known-purpose-for-us. Hold in there with God even as an active sinner. His "grace", aka "unmerited but happily given forbearance of our sins" is extended for His joy to come which He will certainly explain when you need to know it, even as He sees you sin over and over.
Finally, this: 1 Corinthians 14:1 “Let Love be your Highest Aim...”
This, in my opinion, is the "formula" of salvation. Be thankful that you knew fear if it got you aware of a Loving God. Approach this God to deal with the unloving ways you behave with now and have behaved with in the past. Practice love until is it your highest motivation and know our Loving God is covering your mistakes as you learn through grace. Sin no more by only acting in love. Know that only an Eternal Perfect Lover could pay the penalties of your sins which would be more than you could handle. Worship adoringly this being who is Jesus and build a prayer-without-ceasing lifestyle that includes letting your prayer be your work and work be your prayer. Join a community already doing this, for they do exist. Learn all you can from spiritual leaders and religious teachers that fit fully the Love you understand or politely stay silent and leave what you cannot fit into your life of love. Not all teachers want the same relationship you want with God and mankind and creation. Pray the Serenity Prayer before meeting these spiritual leaders and religious teachers, which goes, "God, grant me the serenity (peace in the heart) to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." With this you are well on your way to maximum benefit to God Creator and yourself and others. If I have gotten your attention to come this far into my sharing, then perhaps one more item may be worth putting in here. You, even with this knowledge, do not actually "save" anyone, even by convincing someone to try this knowledge out and they turn to God. It is always God who saves. Believing that I could know enough to become convincing to unbelievers and turn them to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and then somehow obtain a reward in the next life put me on the wrong path, even though my own faith grew and my roots went deep into the fertile earth of God's garden. Instead, I learned this: God saves people, with or without me, for His purpose. I can pray for His attention in the lives of people I don't want to miss in the life to come and hope they have a unbelievably rich and full companionship with God, but, in the end, it is God who brings salvation. Lately though, I have started asking God if I can witness Him saving people as part of my daily prayers. I offer myself for His use, but regardless of my use or not, I still usually get to witness a salvation or more than one salvation the day of my prayer. It is perhaps the most awesome joy of my life. I feel God just draw me into His side when I pray this, and all day long I am more aware of the "fringe" people who God wants to save dearly. And then, seemingly like a outburst of joy, a person will approach God and start a renewed relation with Him. A person will find the Eternal Perfect Love of the LORD. This moves beyond words for me to describe this with, but I hope you will find the bond you can have with God the Father in particular drawing you into His side for the day. May you bless yourself and may you accept my blessing to you knowing that I give my blessing with gratitude for you, for your existing.
Imagine, if you can, being loving all the time; from now on, if not already. Jesus said to the adulterous woman after challenging the crowd who brought her to Him to find out what he would do; condone stoning her to death or come up with something different. Once again, he showed His Loving protection, and said, “let the one without sin cast the first stone.” When everyone felt the weight of the statement and left, knowing they could not start, He said to the woman, “Where are your accusers?” The woman replied, “they have all gone.” He stated, “If they do not condemn you, then neither do I. GO AND SIN NO MORE.”
Consider another case, too (John 5,1-18). There was a lame man at the waters of Bethesda. These waters were special. An Angle of the Lord was said to stir the waters from time to time and anyone with an illness or deformity would rush to be the first one in. This person would then be healed of their infirmity. The lame man had been as he was for 38 years, having no opportunity in all that time to be the first one in the water. Jesus asked him if he wanted to be well. The man said, “Sir, I have no one to help me into the water. Somebody always gets there before me.” Isn’t that human nature - God Himself standing next to us as we limit ourselves to getting what is good and right to what little understanding even the longest lived person ever managed to have. Jesus then said, “Rise up, take up your mat, and walk.” The man was healed doing just what Jesus told him to do. Later in the story, Jesus talked with the man. He said, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
Twice, in very different contexts, Jesus makes the statement that, through His gift, we should, “Sin no more.” If Jesus could say this, then there is a time coming for every human being when they can LOVE from that moment onward for the rest of this life and forever after in the eternal/ever-after life to come. No more sin will occur by that person. It is achievable because HE SAID SO. It is done by only LOVING from that moment on.
What follows is the beginning to a song
I have been composing in order to recite the definitions of Love and the disciplines of Love statements I have found so far from my daily time spent in studying the Word of God and the time in prayer and meditations in a communion of the Eternally Devoted to Love Spirit, Love the Son, and Love the Father. It is not yet finished at the time of this writing, but it is a work in progress:
VERSE 1:
Love is patient, Love is kind
Love keeps trusting all of the time
Love endures every circumstance
It’s always hopeful, it cares about you
CHORUS:
So lets live a life of Love,
So lets Love, for Love never fails
So lets live a life of Love
So lets Love, for Love never fails
VERSE 2:
Love forgives a multitude of sin
Its obedient and fearless, thick or thin
If necessary, it will die for its friends
This is how powerful it can be for humans
CHORUS:
So lets live a life of Love,
So lets Love, for Love never fails
So lets live a life of Love
So lets Love, for Love never fails
BRIDGE:
There is one true way to be
This kind of lover
Know God and the one He sent forth; Jesus Christ
For God is love and in God we delight
No one needs to be alone in this fight.
Take this first step
Come join in the dance
Let love lead us on
Out of death's trance
God loves us (5x), I love us (5x)
REPEAT VERSE 1 TO END
Love is patient, Love is kind
Love keeps trusting all of the time
Love endures every circumstance
It’s always hopeful, it cares about you
NOTES: Not quite ready. This is a placeholder, as I hope to have the stanzas of the song above include all the references to Love that the Bible contains. These are as of yet not included:
Love is as strong as the grave and stronger because of Jesus
Love is higher than Heaven (Psalm 108:4)
Love makes up for all offenses (Prov. 10:12)
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
[Song of Songs 8:6,7]
Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.
[Song of Songs 8:6,7]
Love cannot be quenched by many waters. Nor can rivers drown it. [Song of Songs 8:6,7]
If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned. [Song of Songs 8:6,7]
Love rejoices in the truth (I Cor. 13:6)
Love believeth all things (I Cor. 13:7)
Love is long suffering (long-suffering is often interchanged with
“patient” but I find it easier to put them both in).
Love never fails (1 Cor. 13:8)
Love does no wrong to others (Romans 13:10) (so...)
Love fulfills the law (Romans 13:10:)
Acts of Charity (Love) last longer than family and friends
(Sirach 40:24) (Sirach is found in Roman Catholic Bibles)
Maybe the Love is Not verses too?
Love is not jealous (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Love is not pompous (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Love is not inflated (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Love is not rude (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love does not seek it own interests (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love is not quick tempered (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love does not brood over injury (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing (1 Corinthians 13:6)
So, what makes the Only Begotten Eternal Perfect Lover Who was, Who is and Who will always be of Eternal Perfect Lover Who was, Who is, Who will always be and Annointed Son of God Jesus who is also a Baptized Son of Man worthy of the statement, "Jesus is the achiever of the HIGHEST POSSIBLE LOVE?
To understand this, you must first understand the four primary characteristics of God. The four characteristics are:
LOVE, JUSTICE, MERCY and TRUTH
These Virtues are shown, over and over, to be the OVERRIDING virtues of God in the Bible. Of these four, the overriding characteristic is LOVE. I think of it this way. The hardest substance commonly known to man is the diamond. On the hardness rating scale, the diamond is a 10 (scale is from 0 to 10). The next hardest substance is a 7 on the scale, last I knew. Love is like this for God. God’s LOVE is the very reason that there can be variations in life instead of only God talking to Himself. But, it requires the sacrifice of perfection, for only God is perfect and duplicating himself requires no effort on His part. Accepting variation, on the other hand, is when God’s LOVE shows His WORTHINESS for ADORATION (WORSHIP ONLY GOD CAN AND SHOULD GET). A look at JUSTICE AND MERCY will suffice as a starting point for understanding GOD’s LOVE, through JESUS, and is the true recognition of LOVE that GOD is! Without Jesus, there can be no honest to goodness LOVE, and here is why:
The Bible says that God is Love, but it also states, unequivocally, that God is JUST. So, how can that possibly be true if the Bible also says that God does not punish “us” for ALL our SINS (David in the Psalms – reference). It is also possible that God pardons one person for the sin of lust and leaves another who acted just as sinfully in that area of life yet He makes them a leader of men. Why and How can this be?
The answer is SHOCKING! The New Testament Jesus said, God never gives us more than we can handle, in so many words (reference). He, Jesus, will never leave us nor forsake us, unless you force Him to leave by your freewill. Even then, He does not forsake us, but the best is in a relationship WITH HIM. First off, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is ever-after life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” When even the lowest form of disobedience to God’s requirements is committed, death should naturally occur. How can a creation justify breaking his Creator’s laws? Sometimes, sin is met with punishment as well as death. But, creations have limited resources in handling long-term suffering. It is this very freewill disobedience to God’s requirements, that Jesus came to earth as both God and man to solve. He then lived a perfect life, a life free of any sin, any disobedience to the will of His con-substantial Father and con-substantial Spirit, and took the punishment for all believers, not just the worst of all believers, but even someone who only crossed God once. We believers know and therefore acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah (The Anointed, The Holy Spirit interacting with a man causing direct God to man communication) AND the Son of God – Jesus is divinity. (Theologically, Jesus is the visible image of the indivisible God, but there is also invisible parts of God of which humans do not know completely but the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit do). When a sin requires death and/or torment, the believer takes on some of the punishment, depending on their design, and then Jesus, through a maneuver of law that requires the punishment happen for the sin, keeping God JUST, but does not specify that the guilty party necessarily be the one to go through the torment and death so He substitutes His own self to complete the punishment and death that the believer is not able to handle. He does this over and over for each creation ever given a human life and every sin the creation has committed or will commit in their current lifetime. This is the act of acknowledging Him as the Messiah, the Son of God. He takes on one death for me and will raise me to ever-after life, and interrupted the many torments of my life for the sins I have committed. He then completes the curses the broken covenants we break in our sin. And, not just ours, but EACH AND EVER HUMAN – BILLIONS AT LEAST, but every single one!!!! He can do this, because of the perfect obedience He gives to LOVE. Remember, LOVE is not subject to law. It is the purpose of law to stop unloving acts from harming who God values and desires to be around forever after. Love fulfills the law. Jesus says that not one broken law will go unpunished for eternity. But the only and actual hope is found in Him for He is the only one who can and does take away the punishment we believers cannot handle. Remember, God is personal to each person, and what God has done for one person He will do for all. He does not play favorites. So, why is Jesus (LOVE The SON) the ACHIEVER OF THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LOVE? He has Billions saved from creations to ever-after Lovers to live with. He trades Perfection for Uncomfortableness and Mercy for strict Justice. He does this for YOU. Don’t believe this? Start looking around your world. How often do/have you sinned. Now, also think of the time to come when God is done creating human kind. God says in His WORD that there will be a time when He will have created all the humans He will. Jesus has an “out date” as criminals say. There is a time coming when all the people who have believed, will witness Jesus come to the end of the punishment. We already know that Jesus will come again one day in glory. All of use Catholic/Christians will see Him and immediately worship Him, for we could not manage the individual sins we committed, and Jesus does it for anyone who seeks it from Him. He will be our relationship forever after. He is WORTHY of GOD LEVEL ADORATION, for He is perfect in LOVE, and chose the role that SAVES US. You know the AMAZING PART is that, according to Revelations (Reference), that all people will be raised from death to life and stand in mass before God, and we will each know our unworthiness of life. We are garbage and bound for Hell overwhelmed by the feeling of complete and utter DOOM. So much will this feeling be controlling us, that no matter how much faith we had in life, standing before the judgment of God by Jesus, we will all believe we have lost all hope of a good ever-after living. The Bible says it this way (paraphrased – Revelations reference), to those on His left, He will say, “When I was Hungary, you fed me not, and when I was thirsty, you gave me nothing to drink, and when I was naked, you clothed me not. Be gone, though sinful people, for I never knew you.” That is harsh coming from the God of LOVE who gave us freewill. For those in this group, they would not accept a Higher Power over them and choose to be their own highest power, forcing Love, ie Jesus, who has just completed the payment of death, imprisonment, slavery, humiliation, sickness because of unhealthy habits (personal choices), and all other forms of sin and disease that this group of mankind took in total depravity, seeking only for the pleasure of themselves, that sends them away from God who Totally and Fully pardons a created person for even a drink of water for another.
AND THEN THE GROUP ON HIS RIGHT… He says, “When I was thirsty, you gave me drink, and when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, and when I was naked, you clothed me.” AND THIS GROUP, YES, THIS GROUP TOO says, “Lord, when did we ever know you were thirsty and gave you a drink, hungry and we gave you food, and naked and clothed you?” DO YOU NOT SEE THIS. NOT ONE HUMAN CREATION HAS EVER BEEN OR WILL EVER BE ABLE TO STAND JUSTLY BEFORE GOD AND RECEIVE FULL ACCEPTANCE INTO EVER-AFTER LIFE OF GOODNESS. NO NOT ONE!!!!!!!!! You may doubt this, but you will be WRONG. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE INSULT OF JESUS COMING IN TO THE COURTS OF HIS FATHER AND ASSUMING HIS, and HIS ALONE, SEAT OF JUDGMENT and ALL HUMAN CREATIONS REALIZING HOW MUCH HE DID TO KEEP GOD THE FATHER, HIMSELF, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST as well as KEEP ANY LOVING HUMAN, NO MATTER HOW LITTLE IT IS, ALIVE AND PREPARED TO BE ACCEPTED INTO A BEAUTIFUL AND JOYFUL, LOVING BEYOND MEASURE LIFE FOR-EVER AFTER AFTER WE HUMANS BUILT THIS SADNESS INTO GOD’S LIFE?!? STILL FAILING TO SEE GOD? ADMIT EVEN ONE SIN AND YOU WILL BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF GOD’S COVENANT FOR JUST LIVES LIVED. YET KNOW AND OBEY JESUS AND ALL THE SAINTS THAT KEEP DAILY DISCIPLINED LIVES POINTING TO JESUS AND HIS SO MUCH COMPASSION FOR YOU THAT YOU BETTER HEAR IT NOW!
REPENT, FOR THE MESSAGE IS GETTING OUT. DO AS THE BIBLE SAYS (YES, READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY OR LISTEN TO IT ON RECORDINGS, OR TOUCH READ IN BRAILLE, AND SO ON, BUT GET IT IN YOU! SINCE I, this writer, CAN EXPLAIN THIS, THE TIME IS UPON US. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOW, RIGHT NOW!
Is there a Bible available to you? Is there a church available to you? Are there people and resources available to help you get started? Is there a 12-step group that can help you with major errors and point you to the One who LOVES you and can return you to sanity and ultimately to Himself (Jesus)? The routes are many, but the Highest act of LOVE is already a completed work. Just believe and share your journey with Jesus with others, declaring Him the Messiah, the Son of God.
I need to take some time to speak in practical matters. There is a book I was given that I read two thirds of called, "Where is God when it hurts?" I like to think of this by the title of, "Where is God when you become responsible for Loving someone or something yourself?" You mean Jesus suffered/suffers for the freewilled creations He has made, and, for meaning in life now and forever after I have to decide whether I can Love when it is on me to do so (nevermind it meaning in all things, in all ways, for all of forever from this now afterwards). Some feel that by being a created being that they (and formerly me) needed to get whatever they wanted all the time, and anything less than this, no matter how misguided, that anything else proved that God is sadistic, creating flies only to pull their wings off and force them to face hardships they were not meant for, whenever He is not Loving. So, this is what I have come to my philosophy of living:
The question at the cross road of, "Does God even exist?", and, "If He does not, will I be Loving or Mean?" is something that must be met by all people. Those who only go mean, that is to say, those who find that only they themselves matter, at least, it is all that they allow themselves to believe, will move farther away from gratefulness for the life that have. They will not be able to handle short times of struggle, much less a lifetime, without taking advantage of the weak, at the "cross road", coming out of the wonderous cocoon of sheltered upbringing (if they were lucky enough to get this). So, the only option left for me, was, "Curse God and die." and, "What will I do that is LOVING for the rest of my life?" The former leads to insanity, thinking that nothing is real and nothing matters, as it all comes to naught with a death that leaves you completely without
history and purpose, just and end, or a blanking of your knowledge an a complete starting over to live regenerated lives not knowning the past ones that came before this and those that will come after, only for a Inspector Cruso like surealism that knows no love, while the latter gives the fullness of love, in that what one does in this life is a preparation for living forever after death in acts of Love for God and Love for self and neighbors (neighbors = sub parts of the Whole God).
In choosing to be "Loving", I found the truth. God is a PERFECT LOVER. It is this truth that makes Him the unchanging companion for all people. He has come to create and have His creations become freewilled Lovers. When you know somebody else has not reached this level of enlightenment and you know what is took for God to reach you and force you to choose, this day, no matter how bad you think you have it, will you Love? How and who and what will you Love? To learn to Love, you need to know that it starts with God and His Love for you. You need to know as much as you can from study and application what the definitions of Love are. You need to be able to trust that death is one glorious gateway to your personal perfection in Loving, for God, Self, All People, and All Else - yes, that order.
Definitions that may help along the way:
Patient means "waiting until there is an evident expectation to
continue, under duress if necessary."
Patience is allowing one's plans to be interrupted
is giving way to others
is holding firm to God's loving ways when trouble arises
Kind means preforming an act on behalf of somebody besides
yourself for which strict justice does not require.
Kindness is a doing of an unrequired goodness
is a forbearance or suspension of justice granted - especially to those with a desire to correct or learn from a mistake.
is an upholding of good manners, is being polite
is help
Joy is continued happiness about something true.
fills a spirit everlastingly.
stems from God claiming you as God's
Peace means free from strife
comes to people who have good will, not necessarily who are
completely good all the time
is time without accusations
is founded in the truth that requirements are never to
be burdens
Long Suffering holds the reward of freedom and spirituality. Hang in there.
Goodness is appropriate acceptance and appropriate living
is wholesome action
are those in love acting in unison
is obedience to God's law
Faith is the assurance of knowledge that is "unprovable" because one believes that if God
said it or wrote it through the faithful who penned the Bible that it must come as He
said/says/is continuing to say. “Noah built an ark in the desert when no
one else believed that God was saying to do so.” This is an example of
awesome faith.
is the belief that God does the impossible standardly and will make the Way for you through any circumstance.
We are empowered to make LOVE our highest aim (1 Corinthians 14:1) – to only be considering the Love needed for someone to live besides yourself. Ultimately, we Love God and do according to His ways – we do love others and repent if in error using God’s promised forgiveness for those who sincerely try to change. God has allowed me to grow, even now later in life. Christians always have a purpose – we cannot be deceived in this., so it is imperative to Love sacredly even if “romantic love” is not for you.
Forgiveness allows a person to change ones own history. Finding out WHY someone has harmed you can often lead to an apology by the offender, but is also JUST AS LIKELY to require one from the “offended” party (you) if the reason is right, bringing both parties into peace concerning each other.
Faithfulness is consistence, especially of personal devotions to God,
Spouse, Neighbor, and, yes, self.
is God's contact with us – He is eternally faithful, always
with us to set alive our own ability to Love.
is ultimately only found pure in God. God cannot lie, for all
reality is defined by what He thinks, says and does
Humility is total dependency on God's ability coupled with a total lack
of confidence in our own ability without Him
is committing to be Loving in all time from now on though
we may not be perfect. Love doesn't require perfection to work.
Hope is the desire to do or receive a yet-to-come kindness.
Gentleness is lying in His arms, resting in Him - in His embrace
is humble and certain action
is mildness
is the withholding of anger and other powerful emotions with a commitment to
endure for another's coming
to the being of a lover themselves
Self-Control is living by the definitions of Love, and sinning no more. It is inspired by the
Holy Spirit and builds a solid relationship between you and God and you
and neighbor.
is being a lover over ALL other ways in one's‘'prime directive.'
Generosity is freely giving what one has freely received.
is some act of kindness performed for another for which strict justice does not demand.
Meekness is withholding anger and resentment through humility (we humans are all getting
better than we deserve = humility).
is not assuming you are an authority
Temperance is making rationalized, thoroughly thought through decisions.
is the appropriate use of moderation and abstinence
Wisdom is the prudent, disciplined use of accumulated knowledge
(fear, which only Love overcomes, is the beginning of wisdom)
Justice is giving every being its due.
Power is derived from how well you love and is strength through a distance.
Gratitude is thankfulness of the heart for favors received.
Trusting is faith that one shall find good circumstances.
means to have or place reliance upon
Obedience is a natural growth of trusting.
is the certainty that good circumstances will result from whatever is decided.
gives motivation to serve.
Freedom is the truth manifested in our lives. If God wants you as a bug, you will be the
happiest being a bug, because God is truth in all matters. God does not create a
being to abuse them. Quite the opposite. God creates to personally interact with His creations to bring out the greatest forever-after relationships with His creations
Softly means of a gentle disposition.
is emotionally involved.
Holiness (pg 223 NLT Study Bible, note for 17:1-26:46) does not describe one attribute among many. Rather, it is the sum of all the attributes of His person, nature, and character. In a phrase this is, “Devotion to Love and restoring peoples goodness and happiness.”
Holy means Eternally or Ever-after devoted to the purpose of LOVE
As well, for this document, I would like to add some helpful Biblical scriptures concerning the topic of this post. I will simply put the scripture indication and a brief summary. These are a few of the favorite verses from the Bible:
1 Corinthians 14:1 Let love be your highest aim...
John 13:35 By this you will prove you are my disciples, if you have love between you
Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death, but Christ's gift (of sacrificial love) is everlasting life and love
John 15:13 The greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends
Romans 6:23 God showed His great love for us (in part) by sending Christ to us to die
John 3:16 God so loves the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him shall not parish but have everlasting life
John 20:28-29 Blessed (happy) are those who do not see Jesus yet still believe!
1 John 4:8 God is Love! Those who do not know this do not love.
John 17:3 The way to eternal life - know God and Jesus - the One God sent forth - take in knowledge of them.
Exodus 19:6 Israel will be a "kingdom of priests" - a "holy nation." This is what God intends for Israel and why they are a "chosen" people. It is not that they are God's favorites - God doesn't play favoritism - it is that they are meant to be priests for all churches throughout the World. For this reason, as explained elsewhere in this message where I use "Eternal and Perfect Love(r)" for the words, "the Lord" and "God" and substitue "the Begotted and Annointed Son of God and Baptised Son of Man" for "Christ" and for "Holy" I substitute "Eternally (or forever after for lower case "holy" not refering to "God") devoted to Love", I also substitute "the Priesthood" for "Israel" and "Judah", and feel that I am part of the "Priesthood" as a "Catholic Christian graft to the Vine of Jesus" unlike the "Nation of Priests" by nationality and family lineage that many current Jesus as Messiah Beliving Jews who are part of the "original" vine of the Priesthood" Now, Old Testament Jews are not the only people God has opened this privilege (being God's Priests) to. It has been given to any who believe in God's only begotten Son, Jesus. All who believe this will be made priests to present God's Good News (that the time of the curse on humans is gone for those who believe and are motivated by faith, hope and Love to do good works in Jesus, the Son of God, the Messiah’s name) and that everlasting life is offered. This might seem overwhelming, but a hint can be applied, a quote from Melvin Jones – the founder of the Lions Club service organization and it is this, “you can't get very far (in life or spirituality) until you start doing something (positive) for somebody else.” (Yes, your own children count).
John 15:9-17 Obey Christ to stay in His love. He has made you His FRIEND. You are filled with His joy!
Hebrews 10:24 Incite each other to preach God's Word
Mark 12:29-31 God is Love and Lord. Love God with all your heart, all your soul (body and spirit), all your mind, and all your strength. Also love your neighbor as yourself.
Galatians 5:22,23 When Holy Spirit guides your life, you will have the fruits of holiness
- love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, generosity, long-suffering (which brings freedom and spirituality), faith, meekness, temperance, trustfulness, forbearance, and courtesy. (In case you are wondering why my list of 'Fruits of the Holy Spirit is longer than nine like most Bibles list, it is because I looked up this verse in many translations and used the words that the translators placed there. The above list is a compilation of these and I place faith in each one because with Holy Spirit guidance I have gained so much with
them).
1 Corinthians 13 – 14:1
A love is (and is not) writing.
As for the Four primary characteristic of God, “Love, Justice, Mercy and Truth” Let us take a closer look at Justice and Mercy, – The glory of God, and in particular, Jesus.
Love (Substituting “Love” for “God”) the Son said that there is no law that will not receive its full effect if followed or broken. If followed, Love’s requirements are never burdensome. Do what He expects obedience to and you will soon have all the good times God can and does deliver. Break what he expects obedience to and you must receive the punishment or discipline that is required. That is pure Justice. But, the human race cannot handle the full punishment
and that is where Jesus stepped in. We do not get punished for all our sins (David in Psalms writes of this. Get verse). And we don’t get punished beyond our ability to handle it, hence the Passion of Jesus, who took the beating and the cross and took away our illnesses and deformities and the everlasting death penalty for all believers. This is the mercy of God.
Jesus is eternal and just as much God as the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that God will reach a point where He will no longer create new humans. Christ will or has completed all the punishments and deaths for the believers that believe He is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, part of the “Trinity”. One day suddenly, He will reappear on Earth and will judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end, and those who believe will recognize that He is SO WORTHY of Eternal or Ever After Adoration
(Worship reserved only for God) that we will be shocked to find out we are saved and perfected to live Lovingly in Ever After Life! He will certainly deserve the title of Savior, and all Humans, even those who turned away from Jesus, will recognize that He deserves Glory. He is the Highest Potential Lover we will ever know, real or imagined. Praise Him for Who He is and What He has done in preserving uniqueness in massive quantities and Loving each person personally, being there with the Mercy they need to overcome their imperfect actions.
Start this journey if you are moved by it to grow in faith, hope and Love in Jesus. Start, if you are desperate by turning your life over to the care of God, praying only for knowledge of His will for you and the power to carry it out. Recognize that maybe, just maybe, Jesus is the real thing and you are not God. God is not a swappable, interchangeable being who is controlled by diabolical wars and put downs. He is the Highest Acts of Love Producer. Trust in Him.
Remember that God loves you and never stops. He does this in every way you allow Him to. Also remember that this creation sharing the thoughts in this document loves you too. Please come together in this cause. In Jesus name, In God the Father’s name, in the Holy Spirit’s name.
What Every Confirmed Catholic Probably Knows
Ten Commandments
Holy Days of Obligation in the United States
The Seven Sacraments
Corporal Works of Mercy Spiritual Works of Mercy
The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10)
Confirmed Catholics should pray for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit listed in the table below.
(Repent of ones sins and ask Jesus to come into your heart so you can Love and join LOVE’s DANCE)
1. I the Lord am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Precepts of the Church (Duties of a Catholic Christian)
1. To keep holy the day of the Lord’s resurrection (Sunday). To worship God by participating in Mass for every Sunday and holy day of obligation. To avoid those activities (like needless work) that would hinder worship, joy, relaxation.
2. To lead a sacramental life. To receive Holy Communion frequently and the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly.
3. To study Catholic teachings in preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation, to be confirmed, and then to continue to study and advance the cause of Christ.
4. To observe the marriage laws of the Church. To give religious training, by word and example, to one’s children. To use parish schools and catechetical programs.
5. To strengthen and support the Church—one’s own parish community and parish priests, the worldwide Church, and the pope.
6. To do penance, including abstaining from meat and fasting from food on the days appointed.
Days of Fasting (for adults) Days of Abstinence (for all those over the age 14)
*Ash Wednesday
*Good Friday
*All Fridays in Lent
*The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God: January 1
We honor Mary, Mother of God
*Ascension: Fortieth day after Easter
Jesus ascended into heaven
*Assumption: August 15
Mary was taken into heaven, body and soul
* All Saint’s Day: November 1
We honor all the saints in heaven
*Immaculate Conception: December 8
Mary was free from sin from the first moment of her life.
*Christmas: December 25
We celebrate the birth of Jesus
Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation (Penance), Anointing of the Sick, Matrimony, Holy Orders
Feed the Hungry
Warn the sinner
Give drink to the thirsty
Instruct the ignorant
Clothe the naked
Counsel the doubtful
Visit the sick
Comfort the suffering
Shelter the homeless
Bear wrongs patiently
Visit the imprisoned
Forgive all injuries
Bury the dead
Pray for the living and the dead
The Theological Virtues
The Cardinal Virtues Faith, hope, love (charity), Prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall posses the land.
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The Way of the Cross
1. Jesus is condemned to death
2. Jesus receives the cross
3. The first fall
4. Jesus meets His Mother
5. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross
6. Veronica wipes Jesus face with her veil
7. The second fall
8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
9. The third fall
10. Jesus is stripped of His garments
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus body removed from the cross
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb
of the Virtues being manifested in life around and in you.)
| Gifts of the Holy Spirit | Fruits Born from these Gifts |
|---|---|
| Gift of wisdom | Virtue of charity (Love). | Gift of understanding | Virtue of faith. | Gift of counsel (right judgement) | Virtue of prudence. | Gift of courage | Virtue of fortitude. |
| Gift of knowledge | Virtue of hope. | Gift of Reverence | Virtue of justice. | Gift of Wonder and Awe | Virtue of temperance. |
The Mysteries of the Rosary
The Five Joyful Mysteries
(to be said on Mondays & Saturdays)
The Annunciation
The Visitation
The Birth of Our Lord
The Presentation
The Finding of Our Lord in the Temple
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries
(to be said on Tuesdays & Fridays)
The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging at the Pillar
The Crowning with Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord
The Five Glorious Mysteries
(to be said on Sundays & Wednesdays)
The Resurrection
The Ascension
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption
The Crowning of Mary
The Five Luminous Mysteries
(to be said on Thursdays)
The Baptism in the Jordan
The Wedding at Cana
The Proclamation of the Kingdom
The Transfiguration
The Institution of the Eucharist
The Divine Praises
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph , her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints.
The Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.
The Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the
Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Hail, Holy Queen
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, O most gracious Advocate, thy eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Prayer After The Rosary
O God, whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant, we beseech Thee, that, meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
V. May the divine assistance
remain always
with us.
R. And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created, and You shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant in that same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
About the Act of Contrition. Remember, Priest's Help, but God is who Actually Forgives.
This is Expected to be Said to Start the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been (length of time, if ever done before, else, this is my first time in) since my last confession.
This is Prayed with some Variants Accepted after the Confession in the Act of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
O My God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the Pains of Hell. But most of all because You are my God, and deserving of all my love. I therefore firmly resolve to confess all of my sins, to do penance, and to ammend my life.
A modern version taught in Religious Education
Lord have mercy on me. Do not look upon my sins, but take away all my guilt. Create in me a clean heart, and renew within me an upright spirit. Amen.
The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The four commandments of the New Testament
Acts 15,20
Abstain from meat sacrificed to idols
Abstain from s exual i mmorality
Abstain from eating strangled meat
Abstain from the consumption of blood
The prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.
This is entirely me. Following are suppositions on titles, both highly formalized ones presented, and also intimate, trust implied, titles of God.
The most formal address to God for me in English is this: The GREAT I AM who is Anyone Who Legitimately Can Claim to be Eternal and Perfect (which is to say Sinless as the Most Sacred Holy Bible Declares) and Always Guided by Love, Justice, Mercy, and Truth, and, as the "GREAT I AM" is Always in any NOW, Who Always Was in Existence and Who Always Will Be in Existence, Holy, Holy, Holy, GOD. This is the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
For a formal addressing for the learned, mature Catholic/Christian the following are my best reminders of respect for God ("Yahweh" or "I AM") in Titles:
God the Father = The Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who Will Always Be To Come, our Father.
God the Son = The Only Begotten Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was and Who Will Always Be To Come - The Anointed "Yeshua".
God the Holy Spirit = "Eternal Spirit Who is Devoted to Providing Perfect Love"
"God" or "LORD" in Biblical Terms Uniting a Trinity of Perect Love in English is held by me to be "Yahweh" = "The Eternal Perfect Lover Who Is, Who Always Was, and Who Will Always Be To Come"
For a newly Born of the Spirit Catholic/Christian, the following work for me: God the Father or, simply, "Father", God the Son, or simply, "Jesus", and God the Holy Spirit, or simply, "Holy Spirit".
A thought to share: For a demonstration of God's Love to those who cannot concieve of God yet and whom have a loving mother, "Mother" is the name for God on the lips of all of them, for she does her best to supply every need and to shape her children with forbearence of wrong done to her, and appropriate guidence in acclimating her children to the world around them. A loving Father also provides much of this, but it is usually the mother that the child seeks out first.
For those who lack a loving mother and father, all mature Catholic/Christians are encouraged to work to insure that these children have all the necessities of life and that justice is upheld for them. This is also applied to widows as well. May we find a way to stop the cycles that cause orphans and widows, and, until then, advocate for the orphans and widows as if they are our own spouces and children. May our communities take action early to instill the virtues God wants us to have before bad choices can be made.
