Author: Faith

Let’s start with the Ten Commandments:

Thou shall have no other gods before me.

Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image.

Thou shall not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Remember the sabbath day to keep it Holy.

Honor thy father and thy mother.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet.

Can we say that we have never disobeyed God?

Many liberal churches teach that gay marriage is acceptable to God – it is not.

Many liberal churches teach that gay marriage is Holy – it is not.

There is no place in God’s Word that God says gay marriage is acceptable or Holy.

But there are many with “itchy ears” that say it should be.

And because they feel that what they want is more important than what God does, many of them teach others that choosing gay marriage is okay with God – it’s not.

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” – 2 Timothy 4:3

Is this not happening now? Are not many people choosing to attend the church that allows them to do as they wish?

The Last Days are not a favorite topic of Catholics or Protestants. But it is important that we learn about them so we are not misled.

“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”- Genesis 6:5

Such was Noah’s time and so is ours. We all know those who truly Follow Jesus, but we read of many more who don’t. There is much evil in our world. And God has much reason to be “offended” as Mary, Our Blessed Mother, said at Lourdes.

“The traditional definition of tolerance is living peaceably alongside others in spite of differences. But that view of tolerance has been twisted today to mean that everyone must accept the other person’s viewpoints without question because truth is relative.”

But the truth is not relative to God. There is only one truth-God’s.

And this is exactly the way it was in Noah’s Time. And it has become this way in our time. And so this is where we will begin.

Only Jesus Can Hold Our Hearts!

“Be still, and know that I am God” – Psalm 46:10

When life becomes overwhelming, when someone we love is sick, when our job is in doubt, when the grocery store is more than we can afford. This is when Jesus’s Peace rains down, if we let it.

We have to let go of all we can not control. We need to turn to Jesus completely and surrender! And we need to remember that God Himself is in control 🙂

In Jesus, we find our rest, we find our Peace and we are made whole. Finally, in accepting Jesus, we are complete 🙂

Sometimes we look at all we are supposed to do, and are overwelmed. Is our Faith deep enough? Is our behavior good enough? Are the choices we make good enough?

But the truth is, the only choices we need to make are to try and to stay. Jesus did not come so we could be perfect. He came because He understood that we could not.

And yet God loved us so much, He gave His only Son. Because He knew that our very best efforts would never be enough, but God loved us anyway.

God makes up the difference between our very best efforts and what is needed, because He loves us. Always.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

“Sometimes one forgets that before you can have the Peace Of God, you must have Peace WITH God. The problem IS this: If we don’t believe IN and surrender TO Jesus, we’re effectively the enemy of God. We are at war with God because of our sin, which separates us from Him. We are either FOR Him or AGAINST Him. You don’t want to be at war with God, SO repent and put your faith in Jesus. Feel that HUGE weight being lifted off your shoulders. Find and accept the Peace that God Promises. He Loves you. Share Him. Amen.”

Anonymous

Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated yesterday (Feb. 11). In 1858, Our Blessed Mother Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in France.

“I raised my head and looked towards the grotto. I saw a Lady dressed in white, wearing a white dress, a blue girdle and a yellow rose on each foot, the same color as the chain of her Rosary.”  

St. Bernadette

Mary asked St. Bernadette to pray for the conversion of sinners and to build a chapel. Mary showed her a spring of water that was Blessed, and Healed so many through the years.

St. Bernadette was attacked, detained and questioned by many and many of us would be afraid. The times in which she lived were also a time where many did not believe in God. Just like the time of Our Lady of Fatima (1917) and just like our time now. But she persevered:

“There was something in me that enabled me to rise above everything.  I was tackled from all sides, but nothing mattered and I was not afraid.”

St. Bernadette

A day is coming when we also will be attacked from all sides, but we can also ask Mary, Our Blessed Mother, to pray for us so that we will be unafraid as we keep following Jesus 🙂