Baptism, why? (V) The purpose..What does it mean

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Have you ever ask your self? what does it mean by union with God? What does it mean sharing in Divine Life? What does it mean by Divine Life?

To be honest, it is still a mystery to me. I keep on reflecting on this, and I do not know when or how I will understand it. And yet I have tried to say to myself. This is my purpose in life, to be in union with God, to be with God for ever and ever.

As I read CCC again, there is one passage that get my attention. It mentioning on "the very Life of the Holy Trinity". Well, I tried to reread again. Could it be what Divine Life is all about.

735 He, then, gives us the "pledge" or "first fruits" of our inheritance: the very life of the Holy Trinity, which is to love as "God [has] loved us."127 This love (the "charity" of 1 Cor 13) is the source of the new life in Christ, made possible because we have received "power" from the Holy Spirit.128

Is this the very life of God is all about. It is "to love as God has loved us". Is this what sharing in His Divine Nature is all about? To love?

Love! This is why St. John said , "God is LOVE". That is why the first commandment is "Love your God ... and Love your neighbour". That is why what God wants is not burnt offering but simply LOVE of his people. That is why 6 years ago when I prayed in the praying meeting asking What God wants from me, and God says in a prophecy, "What I want from you is simply to Love Me".

Love God, and Love the people around us. I still remember what my brother Riko said about holiness is all about. He said it's about Loving God above all else. And I just could not forget this thing. To Love God above All Else. And how do we Love God but not by loving one another.

" Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:11-12

What does a communion mean but not a loving union? What is the most vivid image of a perfect communion in our society? A Family! A marriage! and what binds them except Love. What Unites Man and Woman to be one except Love? What brings New Life from this union of Man and Woman except but Love? Love unites, Love gives birth, Love brings forth New Life.

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Baptism, why? (IV) The purpose..our desire

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Dearest brothers and sisters, I do hope that you do not get bored to receive e-mail from me :)hehehe. Let me continue my sharing on my reflection on baptism.

All this time I have been talking on the purpose of our lives. Well, How does that relate to baptism that I intended to share with all ofyou. I will try to explain it later on.

Before that I would like to share more on this purpose of our lives.You know, it might seem simple and obvious to us. The church and the bible said about sharing life with God, about union with God, about partaker in Divine nature. Don't you think that this is too difficult to comprehend. What does it mean? How do we have this share in God's Nature in His loving plan for us?

But I believe the more important questions that I ever ask is not what does this whole thing means. But simply, Do I believe in His plan and Am I willing to Follow Him?

It is not easy to follow what God wants, I say. And most of the times we choose our own purpose, our own plan. We seek what our lives is all about in things that will not give us the answer.

I still remember one sentence that Br. derrick mentioned during RCIA.It's the words of St. Thomas Aquinas, "God alone satisfies".

I asked my self then, do I really believe God ALONE satisfies? As I reflect on this thing I found one passage in the CCC.

27 The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:

The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator.

Wow, I was amazed at this, it says we canNOT live fully unless we acknowledges God's love and give our live to God.

We cannot Live fully until we say to ourselves, "Yes, God is in mylife, God loves me, and I want to entrust my life to God, I want to give my life to God".

Have I said that to my self? Have I live fully then all this time? inGod alone we find our fulfillment. God alone satisfies. Do weacknowledge this truth?

I once reflect on this irony of life. In certain degree in our liveswe know that in God alone we find our happiness and our fulfillment inlife, and yet somehow we just ignore it and we just could not give ourlives to God.

And we keep on looking for things that satisfies us, things that bring us happiness, and yet we might never find it, simply because of that "somehow" we just could not trust God and give ourlives to God. Do we acknowledge that in God we will find what we are looking for? God alone satisfies. This is our desire. this is our desire because it was God who planted it. That is why we have this feeling of "notsatisfied" in life, because there is none that can satisfy us, none except God.

"Our hearts are made for You, O Lord. And it will not rest untill it rests in You." --St. Augustine

Next: The purpose..what does it mean?
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