What is the Answer?
I believe that every human being deep in their hearts knows the answer to this question. Most of the time, we tune it out because it does challenge us to change our way of living. This might be very inconvenient for our life style.
My brothers the "desire for God is written on our hearts." This is how God created us. We would like to deny this, but as St. Augustine said, "O God, you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." In addition, J.B Philips described man as a worshipping animal. If, for some reason he has no God, he will worship something. Common modern substitutes are the following: The state, success, efficiency, money, power, glamor, even security, Nobody of course, calls them God, but they have the influence and command the devotion which should belong to the real God. it is only when a man finds God that he is able to see how his worshiping instinct has been distored and misdirected. So, my brothers if you want peace in your soul, then seek God first among all things seek Him first and Seek His Kingdom. The beautiful thing is that when you seek God first, He will provide for all of your needs. We spend so much time worrying about our financial problems, relationships, health, etc, but the answer to all of these problems is God. He said that if we seek Him first he will provide for us. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away”(Matthew 24:35)
Jesus said to Sister Josepfa Menendez, "Help Me," He would say, "help Me to make My love for men known, for I come to tell them that in vain will they seek happiness apart from Me, for they will not find it.
How can we seek the Kingdom of God?
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Matthew 22:37-39
These are the two greatest commandments that we must follow in order for us to inherit the kingdom of God. The Catechism says, “God created everything for man, but man in turn was created to serve and love God and to offer all creation back to him: What is it that is about to be created, that enjoys such honor? It is man that great and wonderful living creature, more precious in the eyes of God than all other creatures! For him the heavens and the earth, the sea and all the rest of creation exist. God attached so much importance to his salvation that He did not spare His own Son for the sake of man. Nor does He ever cease to work, trying every possible means, until He has raised man up to Himself and made him sit at his right hand.” (Catechism 358).
Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." He "is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish." His commandment is "that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." This commandment summarizes all the others and expresses his entire will. (Catechism 2822). This is the will for you and me, my brothers and sisters, to love God and to love our neighbor for the glory of Our Creator Our Lord Jesus Christ.
What do you have to lose? He is waiting for all of us, all that we have to do is to seek His kingdom.
What is His kingdom? Souls, yours and those of your brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world. Whether they are close or far from Jesus, He came to seek the lost sheep.
Are we going to follow Jesus and do the same thing. We should and all other things will be given to us besides especially our eternal salvation. “Whoever brings back a sinner will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:20).
The way to follow Jesus is to offer prayers and sacrifices for those who need them so that they may be saved by the grace of God.
As Our Lady, the Virgin Mary told the Fatima children, “Pray, Pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them.”(July 13, 1917)
God needs our prayers and sacrifices to save others. He thirsts for them. Our Lord Jesus told Saint Faustina, “I thirst. I thirst for the salvation of souls. Help me, my daughter, to save souls.” (Diary of St. Faustina:1032)
He stayed up all night praying for us, we should follow his example and pray and sacrifice for others as well. The sacrifices may be little but joined to the sacrifices of Jesus on the Cross they become very fruitful.
St. Therese said, “Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.”
"Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history."
(Blessed Pope John Paul II)
The Answer is to Love God and Love your Neighbor through Prayer and Sacrifice in order to help them save their souls.
Next day of the Four Men Boot Camp:
http://www.thefourmen.info/2/post/2011/12/the-eighth-day-of-the-four-men-boot-camp.html
Not yet in the God's Marines Boot Camp?
Rise up today to join the True Brotherhood of the Four Men Prayer Groups:
www.thefourmen.info/join-the-true-brotherhood.html
My brothers the "desire for God is written on our hearts." This is how God created us. We would like to deny this, but as St. Augustine said, "O God, you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." In addition, J.B Philips described man as a worshipping animal. If, for some reason he has no God, he will worship something. Common modern substitutes are the following: The state, success, efficiency, money, power, glamor, even security, Nobody of course, calls them God, but they have the influence and command the devotion which should belong to the real God. it is only when a man finds God that he is able to see how his worshiping instinct has been distored and misdirected. So, my brothers if you want peace in your soul, then seek God first among all things seek Him first and Seek His Kingdom. The beautiful thing is that when you seek God first, He will provide for all of your needs. We spend so much time worrying about our financial problems, relationships, health, etc, but the answer to all of these problems is God. He said that if we seek Him first he will provide for us. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away”(Matthew 24:35)
Jesus said to Sister Josepfa Menendez, "Help Me," He would say, "help Me to make My love for men known, for I come to tell them that in vain will they seek happiness apart from Me, for they will not find it.
How can we seek the Kingdom of God?
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Matthew 22:37-39
These are the two greatest commandments that we must follow in order for us to inherit the kingdom of God. The Catechism says, “God created everything for man, but man in turn was created to serve and love God and to offer all creation back to him: What is it that is about to be created, that enjoys such honor? It is man that great and wonderful living creature, more precious in the eyes of God than all other creatures! For him the heavens and the earth, the sea and all the rest of creation exist. God attached so much importance to his salvation that He did not spare His own Son for the sake of man. Nor does He ever cease to work, trying every possible means, until He has raised man up to Himself and made him sit at his right hand.” (Catechism 358).
Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." He "is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish." His commandment is "that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." This commandment summarizes all the others and expresses his entire will. (Catechism 2822). This is the will for you and me, my brothers and sisters, to love God and to love our neighbor for the glory of Our Creator Our Lord Jesus Christ.
What do you have to lose? He is waiting for all of us, all that we have to do is to seek His kingdom.
What is His kingdom? Souls, yours and those of your brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world. Whether they are close or far from Jesus, He came to seek the lost sheep.
Are we going to follow Jesus and do the same thing. We should and all other things will be given to us besides especially our eternal salvation. “Whoever brings back a sinner will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:20).
The way to follow Jesus is to offer prayers and sacrifices for those who need them so that they may be saved by the grace of God.
As Our Lady, the Virgin Mary told the Fatima children, “Pray, Pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them.”(July 13, 1917)
God needs our prayers and sacrifices to save others. He thirsts for them. Our Lord Jesus told Saint Faustina, “I thirst. I thirst for the salvation of souls. Help me, my daughter, to save souls.” (Diary of St. Faustina:1032)
He stayed up all night praying for us, we should follow his example and pray and sacrifice for others as well. The sacrifices may be little but joined to the sacrifices of Jesus on the Cross they become very fruitful.
St. Therese said, “Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.”
"Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history."
(Blessed Pope John Paul II)
The Answer is to Love God and Love your Neighbor through Prayer and Sacrifice in order to help them save their souls.
Next day of the Four Men Boot Camp:
http://www.thefourmen.info/2/post/2011/12/the-eighth-day-of-the-four-men-boot-camp.html
Not yet in the God's Marines Boot Camp?
Rise up today to join the True Brotherhood of the Four Men Prayer Groups:
www.thefourmen.info/join-the-true-brotherhood.html
