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We, its characters, In this,  ‘The Book of Life’  come to understand, God the author orchestrates and designs His plan.      He, in His infinite goodness, created Man!

He does not dictate Our every step, or put forth a command!   But rather puts forth rules to guide, and stand.  Waiting, allowing, any and all to follow His plan.

He breathed His Holy Breathe upon ‘The Book of Life’; it took hold, and rose up, to His delight!

Within the pages of this, ‘The Book of life’, God waits to see; who would choose, who would stay!   Who would be His friend, and follow His way!

Many have come and gone, and only He knows to whom they belong!   It was He you see; who set forth this plan to be!   He, who is the author of these pages within;  Our lives  but an unfolding of trials and laughter , tears and sin.

Yet, only He has final say when ‘The Book of Life’ is done, for it is from God we came and of God we belong.

Though He is the author,  the Father, and lover of our soul, He does not dictate our every whim; He does not ‘keep’ us from our sin!   He allows, and waits for those who want Him.

‘Why can they not see, without me there’s , no life?    It is my story and my right, for I am God, the author of ‘ The Book of Life!’

‘What more can I do, to show them they are my delight?    ‘My sons, and daughters, my way is right.    One more time, I will try!   I will send My Best,  My Son,  My Light!’

‘Once again I tryed  that they would see!   But woe to them; it was not to be!   For they turned their backs once again on me.’

‘Perhaps once again, I will have to start anew!    For those who love me seem so few!’

‘Where are you?’  He would say.  ‘I desire your love.   ‘Why have you looked away from me?     Why do you  continue to stray?    I am the author of your life, the only way!’

With Love, By Paula

Book of : First John  Chapter 3 verses 11-20 -Keeping the Commandments:

11)”This, remember, is the message you heard from the beginning: we should love one another.   12) We should not follow the example of Cain who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother.   Why did he kill him?  Because his own deeds were wicked while his brother’s were just.   13) No need, then, brothers, to be surprised if the world hates you.   14)   That we have passed from the death to life we know because we love the brothers.   The man who does not love is among the living dead.   15)  Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life abides in no murderer’s heart.  16)  The way we came to understand love was that he laid down his life for us.; we too must lay down our lives for our brothers.   17)  I ask you, how can God’s love survive in a man who has enough of this world’s goods yet closes his heart to his brother when he sees him in need?   18)  Little children, let us love in deed and in truth and not merely talk about it.   19  This is our way of knowing we are committed to the truth and are in peace before him   20) no matter what our consciences may charge us with; for God is greater than our hearts and all is known to him.”

Ah Love!!   That most beautiful thing that we all thirst for, long for, and desire.   Love!   Stories have been written and lies have been told; all for love.

Yet, within the world, the pretense  of love is ill advised!   The world believes that sex is love.   Love is so much more than sex, or chemistry, or physical attractions.   It is the heartbeat.    The soul that craves love must find nurturing.   For within it lies the fullness of completion.    When a person is not appreciated, and loved for whom they are and what they offer, the soul thirsts.   Many believe sexual intercourse will fill this void.

Love is the essence of the person…the heart, soul, mind and body.   For to recognize only the physical nature will cause self-destruction.    For  life is constantly changing, and we will not change and evolve together if we will not have common ground.   That which completes us…the love of God.

Our Love Of God is manifest within each of us.   Because God is love,we love because of God.   If He is not present within the equation of our life, and well being, then love is dead.   It is simply physical.  When the physical desires are fulfilled before the emotional and spiritual attributes, lust can enter in, and the mind becomes bent.   Bent towards physical desire over the fulfilment and designs of God’s plan.

God’s plans are what bring peace.   Peace brings harmony.     Harmony brings happiness.

Book of Genesis: Chapter 1 verses 27-28

27)”God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.   28)   God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.”

Book of Matthew: Chapter 19 verses 4-6

4)He replied: “have you not read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female 5) and declared, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become as one’? 6) Thus they are no longer two but one flesh.   Therefore, let no man separate what God has joined.”

Book of Romans Chapter 1 verse 22-32 punishement of idolatry

22)”They claimed to be wise, but turned into fools instead; 23) they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images representing mortal man, birds, beasts, and snakes.   24) In consequence, God delivered them up in their lusts to unclean practices; they engaged in the mutual degradation of their bodies, 25) these men who exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator-blessed be He forever,Amen!   26) God therefore delivered them up to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27)and the men gave up natural intercourse with women and burned with lust for one another.   Men did shameful things with men, and thus received in their own persons the penalty for their perversity.   28)  They did not see fit to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to their own depraved sense to do what is unseemly.   29) They are filled with every kind of wickedness: Maliciousness, greed, ill will, envy, murder, bickering, deceit, craftiness.   They are gossips 30) and slanderers, they hate God, are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wrongdoing and rebellious toward their parents.   31) One sees in them men without conscience, without loyalty, without affection, without pity.   32)  They know God’s just decree that all who do such things deserve death; yet they not do them but approve them in others.”

Crying out, when one is in anguish, it is the same as a prayer.     If you have ever cried out in anguish, then you have prayed.    You have sent up a prayer to Our Heavenly Father.

God our Heavenly Father hears our every word.    So much so, that when we cry, the rumblings of the heart reachs the hearts of our loved ones in heaven.     Their love offered in supplication to Our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ Our Brother gives solace to the Heart of Our Heavenly Father, and heals the wounds of Our Risen Lord!!

Why prayer?    Prayer is the salve to the wounds of Our Jesus!    Wounds that we inflicted throughout the generations!  In the healing of HIS wounds salvation is granted, and peace fills the soul of the believer!

So powerful is prayer, that it feeds the soul.   Nothing else on earth has the power of prayer.   So powerful is prayer, that it is like incense  before the the throne of God.    Then God, the Father Almighty,  looks upon the humble heart and grants peace.    A peace that surpasses all understanding and can not be found in the mere pleasures  of  this life.

The pleasures  of this world are a ‘quick fix’ unto the flesh of the soul, and not the spirit, that is everlasting.

For the spirit, because it is everlasting, requires the ‘food’ that only the Father can give.   As a child waits for his Father, so do we wait for our Heavenly Father.     It is through Him that we were granted life; and it is through HIS SON that we are granted ETERNAL LIFE!

The gifts of the Spirit are from above.    The gifts of the heavenly hosts can not be realized without the intersession of the Son of God!    Jesus, the Son of God, has been granted this immeasurable gift.    Why?   Because obedient to the Father,  Jesus succumbed to the greatest suffering imaginable to redeem the whole world from its sin.

Sin!   What is sin?    It is all that opposes the love of the Father.   Sin is disobedience to the will of God.

How does one know the will of God?   First through the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ; found in the MOST HOLY BIBLE.

The Ten Commandments were the first rules Our heavenly Father desired us to follow.   However, the rules were broken, and cast aside.    So, Our Heavenly Father sent forth His only begotten Son, so that we all may know Him, and the incredible love He has for us.

This is the love of a Father to His children.    He gives, and gives.   Yet, even the Heavenly Father will one day call us home.    Then the love that you and I have experienced by following His Son will bring us home.

God’s love is pure and true.   His Son purifies us to allow us acceptance into the kingdom.   Only  the Son has this power.   Nothing else will matter.   No matter what you have done, or who you have cared for.   If The Son has not met you, and has not been allowed to wash away the sins of this life, then the kingdom of God will be lost forever.

Call upon Jesus and experience this joy that surpasses all understanding, and your life will be ‘full’!   He will fill the crevices of your heart in no other way possible.   That void that has been and ache in your soul for so long will disappear, and you will be made ‘whole’ through the ‘blood of the Lamb of God!’

Book of Hebrews: Chapter 3 verses 7-19   Israel’s Infidelity a Warning

7) Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you should hear his voice, 8) harden not you hearts as  at the revolt in the day of testing in the desert, 9) When your fathers tested and tried me, and saw my works 10) for forty years.   Because of this I was angered with that generation and I said, ‘They have always been of erring heart, and have never known my ways.’   11) Thus  I swore in my anger ‘They shall never enter into my rest.'”   12) Take care, my brother, lest any of you have an evil and unfaithful spirit and fall away from the living God.   13) Encourage one another daily while it is still “today,” so that no one grows hardened by the deceit of sin.   14) We have become partners of Christ only if we maintain to the end that confidence with which we began.   15)  When Scripture says, “Today, if you should hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the revolt,”   16) who were those that revolted when they heard that voice?   Was it not all whom Moses had led out of Egypt?   17)   With whom was God angry for forty years?   Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?   18)  To whom but to the disobedient did he swear that they would not enter into his rest   19) We see, moreover, that it was their unbelief that kept them from entering.”

In the realm or real love, lays real faith.  Defining real faith, is entering into the love of God, through reflection, meditation, and conviction.    Thereby experiencing ‘spiritual highness’!   Elevated in mind, body, and soul, a person rises to perfection spiritually.    This ‘perfection’ is achieved when forgiveness of sins are requested, desired, and contrition is true.

Only by desire from the heart of the believer can such elevated faith be achieved.    Then, when love is so intent, and obedient, God lifts us up!

To be elevated and experience change in the soul is real!!   This ‘transfiguration’ of spirit is real and absolute.   It can not be experienced without contrition of spirit for ones sins, and ‘trust’ of the love of God!    It is HIS grace that grants such an immeasurable gift!   So real, and so profound, HIS gift of grace is, that ONE can not get enough of the
Son of God!!   HIS presence is real and absolute!   Anyone can have it, but ‘few’ desire it!

Why?   Why, would ONE not desire to know such incredible love?  Is it the work that is involved, or the humility incurred, or the arrogance of the unbelieving soul?  It is all of these things!

It is the deception of evil, that distracts the mind from the love of God.   For if Man knew what waits for Him, He would ‘run to the cross’ and cling to it unsparingly!   So incredible is OUR LORD!!    To bad, few desire to know such love.

If you desire such love, a love that is there through out all the ‘trials’ of this life, then Jesus Christ is who you are looking for.    Only He can fill the ‘void’ that the soul thirsts for!  Not the new man or woman you desire, not the ‘forbidden fling’ you think no one will find out about, or the excessive money, power, and prestige life offers.  None of the contraband of life can do what Jesus does.   There is only ONE, Jesus Christ!

God Bless you!   May you decide to realize the “Peace that surpasses all understanding!”

Book of Matthew: Chapter 11 verses 25-30   Jesus and His Father

25) On one occasion Jesus spoke thus:   “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever, you have revealed to the merest of children.   26) Father, it is true.   You have graciously willed it so.   27)   Everything has been given over to me by my Father.   No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son-and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.   28)”Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdersome, and I will refresh you.   29) Take my yoke upon your shoulders and learn from, for I am gentle and humble of heart.   Your souls will find rest, 30)  for my yoke is easy and my burden light.”

Book of Matthew: Chapter 17  Verses 1-3  Jesus Transfigured

1)  ” Six days later Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John and led them up on a high moutain by themselves.   2) He was transfigured before their eyes.   His face became as dazzling as the sun, his clothes as radiant as light.   ) Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them conversing with him.”

…”a little child shall lead them.”      The most beautiful, honest speech comes from the littlest child.   Perhaps that is why Jesus loves the little children so.

At one time we were at Mass and my youngest grandson, (fourteen months) was sitting next to me.    He looked at me, smiled, folded his hands and looked straight ahead at the alter.   Later, after grace He said..Amen!

Children do learn what they live.    They desire to be like us!

When I was with another grandson, He picked up the tridentine cross I have around my neck, looked at it and put it to my lips!  Whereby I kissed the cross and He looked at me and smiled!   He was fifteen months only.

On another occasion my grandson asked me who was on my scapular.   I told him Jesus’ Mother, Mary, Jesus, and Joseph her husband.   Though so very young, the children want to know.   They are truly gifts from God!

Another time when I was with my grandson, he was playing and his Mother and I were visiting.  He stopped playing, turned and looked at us and said, ‘Read the Bible!’   He then went back to playing.   We looked at each  other, and asked, Did he just say, ‘read the Bible?’   Yes, he did!   He is two years old.

On another occasion, we were at Mass, and when the music for the, Alleluia started, and the singing began.    So did our two year old.    He sang the ‘Alleluia’ all the way through!

At another time, I had said my rosary and had put it away, when my grandson said, ‘Jesus in there!’   I said, ‘Yes, He is!

On another occasion my grandson had started to eat when he saw me say the dinner prayer, he stopped eating and said, ‘I never said my prayer Mommy!’

Children are the closest thing to heaven!

We are all a ‘light unto each other’ no matter what our age!    For Our Lord desires that we love one another. In loving we should be listening.   In listening we are a blessing unto each other.

Book of Matthew Chapter 19 verses 13-15

JESUS BLESSES THE CHILDREN:13)  At one point, children were brought to him so that he could place his hands on them in prayer.   The disciples began to scold them, 14) but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me.   Do not hinder them.   The kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”   15) And he laid his hands on their heads before he left that place.

Book of Ephesians: Chapter 6 verses 1-4 : Children and Parents

1)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for that is what is expected of you.   2) “Honor your father and mother” is the first commandment to carry a promise with it-3)”that it may go well with you, and that you may have long life on the earth.”   4) Fathers, do not anger your children.   Bring the up with the training and instruction befitting the Lord.”

Have you ever been convicted?    ‘Tell  the truth now: what do you think?’

Truth, is many things to many people, but few give thought to its meaning, and purpose.   Much of who we are is our understanding of truth!!

Truth is powerful!   One small word, but one great impact on life!   Truth is conviction of spirit!

It is Our Lord and Savior!   He is the truth!    We can not know ‘Truth’ without knowing Christ!   Absolute Truth is Jesus Christ!   His laws and His dominion reign on ‘Truth’!!

Without Christ at the center of ones life, there is no truth!   Why?   Because  self-examination of conscience is truth!   Self-reflection, and self-denial, are truth!    Without Jesus to illuminate the mind, the spirit will fall short; for the flesh cannot see, what the spirit knows!    The difference is the divinity of the living person of Jesus Christ in one’s life.   His life manifest within His Beloved, His own: those who called upon the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness, and salvation!

‘Truth’ is of God!    When ‘HE’ is called upon He is there;   His truth is life revealed!     Because God is Life!

When a Soul calls upon His Savior Jesus Christ for the cleansing of the sins,   the cleansing is so real, that the Spirit is left feeling, ‘lighter’!    Sins are weight!     They weigh us down!    So heavy are sins, that the Soul becomes heavy laden, and ‘hurts’!    The hurt, (sorrow) is the spirit experiencing the ‘disappointment’ of God!    Believing and knowing God is Our Father, allows the Human Spirit to cry out for forgiveness!!

This occurrence is real!   It is necessary for fullness of life!    Yet, it is not realized, and experienced by many, because many do not want to be held accountable for their actions!!

Unfortunately, accountability is absolute!   It comes!   Either now or later, but it comes!    God, is the owner of us all!   (He is similar to the Father that gave you the new car, believing you will be wise, remembering and caring as he instructed!)    However, many take  life and run with it!   With no regard to being held responsible whatsoever!

Life is Truth!   Experiencing Truth is experiencing Jesus Christ!   There is no Truth without Him!!   No matter how nice you are to everyone, How accomplished you are in your task, or how giving you may be with you donations!    Without the LORD there is nothing!   It is having the car with no gas, (life without heart)!

Book of John: Chapter 8 Verses 31-31   JESUS AND ABRAHAM

31)Jesus then went on to say to those Jews who believed in him:“If you live according to my teaching, you are truly my disciples;   32)then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. ” 

 5: verses 9-11

9)”   Light produces every kind of goodness and justice and truth.   10)Be correct in your judgment of what pleases the LORD.   11)Take no part in vain deeds done in darkness;rather condemn them.”

Book of Ephesians: Chapter 6 verses 14-17

14) “Stand fast, with the truth as the belt around your waist, justice as your breastplate, 15) and zeal to propogate the gospel of peace as your footgear.” 16)  In all circumstances hold faith up  before you as your shield; it will help you extinguish the firey darts of the evil one.  17)Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, the word of God.”

When we plan our lives, we typically do not give much thought as to who we may meet along the way.

However , God is always at work.   ALWAYS!   Even though we may not consider it an ‘act of God’ at the time,  it will reveal itself for its purpose later.    For God does not give all the answers at once.   Rather, ‘trust’ is expected and essential.

Most recently when I was traveling, I found it nescessary to say my prayers on the airplane.    I usually keep to myself unless someone asks a question, or if something promps me to speak.

In one instance a lady, asked me if I had read a book called, ‘HEAVEN IS FOR REAL’.   Author: Todd Burpo.    I said, No, I haven’t heard of it.   She then told me about the book and was excited to share it with me.

I thought about it!   I thought, well I believe in heaven so why would I ‘need’ to read the book?!    At any rate, It would seem to always ‘accidently’ walk by this book in  the store.  It did not matter what store, it seemed as though the book kept getting my attention.   Finally, I was without my favorite authors’ at home to read, so I thought, “Why not”!

Upon reading the book I realized it had ‘power’ that was unusual.   In other words, it draws you in.   Though it is not the ‘action filled’ or the mystery that one searches for, it had emotion!   It is in laymans terms and touches the heart in ways one does not expect!   Simply, a loving story, anyone can empathize with.   Because it is a real life experience that occurs, we can not help but feel the anguish of the family.

The book is highly recommened to everyone, no matter who or what your walk of life.    Though it is a very simple book, it is lovely, because it promps ones thinking to what wonders wait for those who love the LORD!

Book of ECCLESIASTES: Chapter 3 verses 1-8

1)” There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.

2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.

3) A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time tear down, and a time to build.

4) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

5) A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

6) A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.

7) A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.

8) A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time of peace.”

IF, of the 28,430 drops of blood that Jesus shed on ‘Good Friday,’ each drop covers each sin of each ‘One’ of us, then we can only begin to understand the beginning of the ‘error of our ways’!

For of the 28,430 drops of blood that Our Lord shed on behalf of the whole world, few consider the magnitude of this one act!

Failure to reflect on such sufferings is to say, ‘it does not matter, that was His job’!    This is a sacrilege of the greatest magnitude!   Compassion is lost, and evil steps in.    Then Jesus, the Lamb of God is taken for granted!    This cutting, piercing, hurt enters into the very core of our Christ, and rests within His Heart!    He, who died so violently, and loves so deeply, still ridiculed, and persecuted, even today, thousands of years later!

What does it take, for a soul to realize his breath is not his own?    That each breath is on loan?    What does it take to delve deep into the recesses of who we are, to realize we are but a vapor?    For that is what we each are!    Our being, is because of the love of the Father!

For foolish and unbelieving souls believe that they are here without a Father.    That they are here on their own accord!    The greater gift is wisdom; and wisdom is fear of the LORD!    For our LORD completes us!   Without Him there is no being!   Without Him there is no living!    Without Him there is no life!    Life is of God, and God is life.   They are ONE!    We, His children draw our life’s breath from Him!   It is He who breathes into each and everyone of us!   It is He who thought of us, and it is He who completes us!    We can not arrive at anything without the ‘love of the Father’ to guide us!

What difference does it make?    The difference is eternity!   Many believe that heaven is absolute!   In other words, it is a given, everyone gets there!     Well, it is true, heaven is absolute!   However, there is One who is a mediator between heaven and earth!   One who is the ‘gate-keeper’!   One who holds the key to the kingdom of heaven, and whom everyone must enter, namely, JESUS CHRIST!

Those of us who profess Christ, His teachings, His life, and His will, do so under the instruction of the Holy Spirit!   It is God the Father that desires that His Son be given the glory, and the Son who gives glory to the Father, and through the Holy Spirit the the Three are One person, makeing up the Holy Trinity of God the Father!!

This incredible fact can only be experienced when, salvation is ‘desired’!    Desire, comes from the heart.    When the heart aches to be loved, forgiven, and embraced, the soul calls out to God for forgiveness!     Then , the power of the Holy Spirit, will lead the sinner to Jesus Himself!    The depth of understanding, the forgiveness of God, is so profound that no mere man can explain it!    For God is omnipotent!   We have only to call upon Him, and He will lead us to a greater love than ever imaginable.

Life is a ‘life-long’ prayer!   It is meant to be a life-long love affair with God!

For simply put: One day we are here.    We know not why!   One day we are gone!   We know not how!

Now that He has chosen to give us life,   To return home, Jesus must be called upon, embraced, and loved!

Book of Luke: Chapter 9 verse 23-24

23) Jesus said to all, “Whoever, wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my steps.   24)Whoever, would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.   25) What profit does he show who gains the whole world and destroys himself in the process?” 

Book of: The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians: Chapter 4 verse4-7

4) “Rejoice in the LORD always!   I say it again, Rejoice!   5) Everyone should see how unselfish you are.   The LORD is near.   6)Dismiss all anxiety from your minds.   Present your needs to God in every form of prayer and in petitions full of gratitude.   7)   Then God’s own peace, which is beyond all understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”

Like a well oiled machine, life flows.    Yet, when trials come, and devestation settles at our door, the comfort, and ease of living is foyled!    Why, you say?    Because life is on loan.   Life is a gift!   It is lent with intent to teach and define who we are.

When life is not embraced, not appreciated for the gift it is, and the ‘love’ for which it is given, we find ourselves in turmoil!   Inner-turmoil!    For, it is easy to become caught up in the ‘flesh-filled’ world; it’s temptations, demands, and ways.    Yet, when recognition is given to He who gives, life takes on meaning.   It gives way to purpose, and delight, and the soul becomes alive!    A deeper sense of understanding has come to be, and peace compliments the heart with fullness of being.    This is living?    This  is the beginning of living!    For God stirs the contents of this life, and those who will His will, come to a fullness of completion, understanding, and merit.

God, and His design are what work in a broken, lost world.    The world, lost without the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, turns to chaos.     We live, in the demise of our own ‘free-will’ when we do not succumb to the teachings of the Father through Jesus Christ His Son!

As the body works when it is cared for, and enjoyed for the care it has been given, so too, the life we live works according to our spiritual level of intensity.   It takes work!   It takes discipline!   It takes desire!    Desiring another’s will over our own.   Not easy to achieve, but achieveable.   For deep within the being of each of us is the inner-child crying to be embraced.    The reaching out, and giving up to the LORD is what completes the human spirit!   It is empty inside without Him there.   He comes only when invited!   He does not ‘need’ us, we ‘need’ Him!   He is our reason for living!!   Once we settle on that note, we start our journey home, and we know the way, for He teaches us, intructs us, and guides us, until we arrive safely home.

The human mind can not comprehend this.   It does not make sense rationally, so it is nescessary to ‘trust’.    For with trusting, we grow.   We grow into whom our ‘Maker’ desires us to be.   Coming to a fullness of living that is only achieved because we believed!

When you set out to build that house, remember, God is building a house within each of us.   The parts, are fitted together according to His design, and His master plan; when trust is applied, and believeing achieved, purpose is arrived at!!

Book of John: Chapter 14 verse 21 Jesus Speaks

21)”He who obeys the commandments he has from me is the man who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father.   I too will love him and reveal myself to him.”

When the trials of life are present, the challenge is believeing, trusting, and obeying throughout the discipline.    For indeed, trials are discipline, and chastisement from our LORD!

When He extends trials to us, He is indeed loving us!   Though it does not seem so at the time, it strengthens us into a deeper ‘in-love’ for our LORD!    The challenge can be anything.   Anything from a ache of lonliness, to the inclusion of an illness inflicted, to being unemployed, and afraid!

The test of faith that our LORD extends to His Beloved, is His design.   He determines the ‘weight’ of the test.    Faith is a gift!   It is arrived at, and achieved over time imposed struggles!     The Love Of Jesus Christ is so powerful that the faithful will die on behalf of Him!    He is Real!   His spirit rises to the occassion, and does not rest until it returns to Him as He desires.    This is God manifest within the Son Jesus Christ within the world.

The world does not work on the will of God!   If it did, peace would reign throughout the world.    As it is Jesus Christ was crucified trying to prove the point!   The world is of ‘free-will’ and not the will of God.     That being the downfall of mankind without the acceptance of Jesus Christ into the heart of each and every soul existing.

He loves so deeply that to experience the the magnificense of who HE is, must realized through trial, testing, and faith.    For the LORD is so ‘over the top,’ the human mind can not comprehend a love so perfect, that one would die for another.    For that is absolutely what happened.    Though we are only human, it mattered to the Heavenly Father, and because it matters to the Father, it matters to the Son!   Have you ever known such love?   Have you ever willed your Son to die on behalf of another?    Simply put, this is ‘pure love’!   Love undefiled!    Yet, it is refused!   The Savior of the world, is experiencing rejection still, after all His sacrifices, and denials, He is aching to love as the Father desires.   However, His love real and absolute, refused, does not redeem the soul, who refuses to admit there is sin, and  that He covers that sin with His blood.

Coming to Christ is beginning the journey home.    For Jesus takes us there.    He stretches out His Hand, and leads us home.   He tells us it will not be easy!  So it is with deep love, faith, and coviction as the journey allows, that we face our trials gallantly on behalf  of Our Risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

Book of Luke: Chapter 8 verses 48-55

48)Jesus said to her, “Daughter, it is your faith that has cured you.   Now go in peace.”   49)He was still speaking when a man came from the ruler’s house with the announcement, “Your daughter is dead; do not bother the Teacher further.”   50)Jesus heard this, and his response was: “Fear is useless what is needed is trust and her life will be spared.”   51)Once He arrived at the house, he permitted no one to enter with him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s parents.   52)While everyone wept and lamented her, he said, “Stop crying for she is not dead but asleep.”   53)They laughed at him, being certain she was dead.   54) He took her by the hand and spoke these words: “Get up, child. ”   55) The breath of life returned to her and she got up immediately; whereupon he told them to give her something to eat.