Baptism, why? (V) The purpose..What does it mean
---continuing
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.
Next: the Paschal Mystery
------ to be continued
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.
Next: the Paschal Mystery
------ to be continued
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