Ever since I encountered the one triune God in my life and developed an ongoing relationship with Him, I have been on a ‘crusade’ so to speak, to bring others into faith. What inner peace! What indescribable joy! Glory to God on high!
Why can’t you just keep it to yourself you may ask? Why do you feel the need to try and convert everyone else? Well that is the beauty of God’s love, it is unselfish and it ends not in itself. It is abundant, overflowing and cannot be contained! And I am not trying to convert anyone, I couldn’t even if I wanted to. It is only by God’s grace that one can be converted, I am merely sharing the Good News of God’s love and what abundant gifts one can hope to receive.
So if it is so great and so abundant as you say then why do you need to share it? Isn’t it given freely to all? Well Yes and No….No in the sense that God does not force His love for us, on us. If we choose to live out our lives without Him then He allows us to do so, even if it means living it out with emptiness. That is what free will is about and why people often find unfulfillment in their lives no matter how much they strive for wealth, health and happiness. They are looking for Love in all the wrong places! I know because I have been there….and so by sharing God’s love with others through my own experience, I hope to steer them in the right direction that is to experience God’s love all in all.
Whom exactly are you trying to reach? Do you have a target audience? Well initially I was thinking of reaching out to Sunday or lapse Catholics. But now I hope to reach out to anybody who will listen. Especially those who want to change their lives around, they want to stop going around in circles heading nowhere. Those who are tired of living out their lives in fear or in anger. Struggling to breathe in the hustle and bustle of their daily lives. Tired of the shouting, the screaming the violence all around.
Let’s begin with two most important questions, is God real in your life? And is He really in your life?
For Catholics we recite the creed at least once a week, I believe in One God, maker of Heaven and Earth, of all things visible and invisible. But how many of you have actually experienced God? How many can say with certainty that I believe wholeheartedly that God loves me and will provide for me? That He loved me so much He came down physically to love me in Jesus Christ? He loves me so much that He counsels me and shows me the way, the truth and the light by His Holy Spirit?
Or do you have this believe that all religions are the same in that we worship one God but through different avenues? How then can so many billions of Christians around the globe over the centuries have gotten it soooo wrong? How is it that our faith can be traced back 2000++ years with documentation of all the events of Christ, His ministry and miracles and documented not just by Christians but Jews, Romans, Greeks and traders of other ethnicity of that time. All bearing witness to the Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour?
If you say you do believe in the One true triune God then ask yourselves these questions….Why can’t you experience Him in your lives? Have you humbly prayed to God for guidance? Have you emptied yourself of the world to listen to Him? Are your lives filled with sin that you have not repented causing your vision and hearing to be impaired?
How do we know that God is really in our lives? Well when we have Him constantly in our thoughts, words and deeds. We fear Him not because of His ‘wrath’ but because we fear offending (‘hurting’) Him whom we love. We listen to and live out his Word for us in the scriptures. We love His children not because they merit our love. We aim to do His will in our daily lives. We long to participate in the heavenly banquet and receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. We have constant peace and love in our lives. These are just some of the ways we know for sure but perhaps some may relate better to what it is like not to have God in our lives……
Well for one, we always want more, we desire more, hunger for more, we have insatiable appetites for practically everything be it money, love, sex, porn, drugs, alcohol, parties, entertainment, television shows, movies, self glorification, foul language and jokes etc. We have these motto that we live in a ‘dog eat dog world’ and survival is ONLY for the fittest. We attend mass out of obligation, dress however way we like, find fault with others in the congregation, half listen to the Word being proclaimed, cannot wait to leave so we do, immediately after receiving ‘communion.’ Then on our way out, we quarrel with anyone in our way.
I pray that after reading this, it may enkindle a desire in you to know God and to build a relationship with Him. To continually experience His love for you in your daily lives. As for those of you already experiencing God’s love in your lives, may the fire burning within never wane and may it grow bigger and brighter and engulf all in His love. Jesus loves you and I love you too!
May God bless each and every one of you. Amen.
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