Posted on 05/04/2013 3:17:51 AM PDT by God-fear-republican
I normally spent first hour of day in office with the Lord and write down something my heart expresses at that moment, the loving dialogue like the ones I now send you. The ideas are not original in the sense that they are all originated from divine inspiration. Empty yourself completely of all thoughts especially on self to be filled with Christ. The last couple weeks of my life have been divine to the point I no longer consider this current life as significant. While living in it, I try to preserve my heart to the Lord only because I treasure what's in it- heaven itself. Your brother in Christ
TO PLEASE THE LORD GOD:
It takes little acts but a heart filled of love and desire to please the Lord God, to bring Him an immense pleasure which pierces His heart and your heart as well, like a little child who picks a dandelion flower in the backyard to give to his mother. With all his love, all his innocence, all his desire to please his mother for nothing else at moment he really cares about including himself but her. It takes that kind of loving simplicity of desire to please the Lord. Throw away all theological and advanced learning and skillful tongue and fanciful words, throw away all preconceived ideas or formula of God and spiritual life, throw away your own will, throw away all thoughts, all concerns, all love, all people, the whole universe of all creations, only God and you who wants to please your Father God only. He in turn will bend down with a broadest smile to accept the dandelion in your tiny hand and turn it into gold.
BECOME
Become grace in the love songs your soul sings all day long. Become the psalmist who recites his praise and adoration with all his feeling at each heaven-on-earth banquet. Become the cry in the desert of love, alone with God. Become the repentant sinner who beats his chest sorrowfully for his past, and then beg joyfully for his future. Become the adulterous wiping out her tears at the Lord’s feet with a broken heart. Become the crippled, crippled at the bottom of his heart, asking the Blessed Lord to teach him how to love. Become the lame, bound down by sins, who tries so hard to get closer and closer to his Beloved. Become the hungry who thirsts for the Eucharistic Food and longs mostly for love. Become the leper who wants to be whole again to be worthy in the Presence of God. Become the poor who has nothing to offer, so he offers his very nothingness. Become the little child who is carefree, simple, innocent, loving, and absentminded, always wants to be loved and to be pleasing to his Father.
Very beautiful! (What a wonderful post to wake up to.) Thank you...
That’s very pretty. Random acts of love and kindness, let Him act in us, and keep our hearts filled with love. Like it a lot.
“THIS is the work of God: believe in Him whom He has sent.”
John 6:29
“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Genesis 15:6
Sounds pretty, but the truth is given in scriptures above. No work or works pleases God like simply believing in Him. Works truly born of the Holy Spirit result from the believing.
Works apart from the believing are “filthy rags” in His eyes.
“THIS is the work of God: believe in Him whom He has sent.”
John 6:29
“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Genesis 15:6
Sounds pretty, but the truth is given in scriptures above. No work or works pleases God like simply believing in Him. Works truly born of the Holy Spirit result from the believing.
Works apart from the believing are “filthy rags” in His eyes.
Revelation 2:4-5
4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
May we never lose our first love!
I can’t understand how people who claim to be a ‘believer’ can go through life everyday, and not pray or read the Word. If they plan on spending eternity with Him, why wouldn’t they want to start the relationship with the Father now? I guess they’re too wrapped up in ‘me’.
Emptied of Yourself to be Filled Up with Christ
Someone who is full of himself needs, not only to be emptied of himself, but to be filled up with Christ; lest seven other demons worse than the first come and set up house in him.
Judas got over himself, alright; yes, he saw to that himself, when he ended his own life in despair. Not the solution. Simon Peter, on the other hand, was first of all emptied, and then he was filled up, when he was both humbled and exalted by the Lord. For the Lord lifts up the lowly and fills the empty with good things, by the preaching of the Gospel to the poor, by proclaiming the Year of Jubilee to those who are under the thumb, and by giving the Kingdom of God to those who have become like little children.
The real problem with being full of yourself, is not that it is tacky, rude, or boorish, but that it is deadly idolatry. It is a kind of self-cannibalism, really, for your own insatiable appetite for yourself will simply consume you from the inside-out, piece by piece. The god of yourself can never fill you up; you cannot add an inch or an hour to yourself or your life; you cannot bestow more than you already have, but, instead, you are emptied of everything you were given, by devouring yourself, one bite and one breath at a time.
When the Lord demolishes the idol of yourself, He does so not to shame, embarrass, or humiliate you, but rather to be your God and give you life. He tears down, in order to build up. He wounds, in order to heal. He kills, in order to make alive. His goal is not to get even or get revenge, nor to teach you a lesson, nor to punish you, but to save you from yourself, for life with Himself. He is not jealous of you, but for you.
So He does not simply crush your ego, but He recreates you in His Image. And when He knocks you off your pedestal, He does so in order to bring you into His Kingdom. For He would not have you make a name for yourself, which could not last, but He names you with His own Name. He makes you His own child, and gives you what is His. Thus, He restores you, He makes you brand new, and He brings you to perfection.
The Lord does not “put you in your place,” as you deserve for your hubris, but He has taken your place in humility, and emptied Himself, and made Himself nothing, in order to raise you up, to fill you with Himself and His good Spirit, and to give you His own glorious place with the Father.
-by Rev. Rick Stuckwisch (my Pastor)
This is wonderful! I’ve been thinking about this topic yesterday and I’m so glad to see your post about it!
Thank you for sharing this with your fellow Freepers!!! God bless!!!!
True, but clearly the original poster does believe in the Lord very deeply. So the works he does out of faith do please the Lord, as a little child's first steps toward her please his mother even though they are imperfect.
I was going to give a short down-and-dirty but this covered it so beautifully that the lack of “pithiness” is an asset. God Bless and thanks.
If you want to please the Lord and bring Him "immense pleasure which pierces His heart" then keep His commandments. There's really only two, 1) love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and 2) love your neighbor as yourself.
Otherwise, it's best to ask Christ for His forgiveness as to why you can't keep two commandments and ask for His help.
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