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This post may have no positive impact on anyone's life or it may be exactly what some soul needs to hear. It will likely cause some to attack me personally. I will leave the outcome of this effort where it belongs - in God's hands.
It is an invitation to take a look into our own souls. Where have we been and where are we headed?
Just when I thought this world had exhausted the ways it can devise to
offend the God who made us in His image and likeness, I glance at social
media or school curriculum and shudder in utter shock and dismay.
Too many have abandoned common sense
and reason. They have no idea why God created them. Some are unable (or
unwilling) to define the difference between a male or female. Others argue that there are more than two sexes. Still more believe that they can
transition from from one sex to another as they choose. Black has become white.
Truth has been replaced with lies. The common good abandoned for personal
gratification and self-pleasure. Good is defined as evil, and evil good. You
have freedom of speech but only to the extent that your listener agrees with
the substance of what you say.
I could go on and on but you understand the point I am trying to make.
It is an act of love to remind our
fellow human beings that there is a God and that someday we will all stand
before His throne of Justice. Human deception and sinfulness will come to an
end. Eternity will begin - one of unending bliss in the Presence of God
Almighty; the other in unceasing torment.
God has implanted in the hearts
of every soul He has created, an innate awareness of natural
law - what is right or wrong. So it is not judging a person whose conduct is
objectively contrary to God's commandments if you point that out -
lovingly. Such fraternal correction is indeed an act of love - an obligation
each of us has - no matter how difficult it may be to share that truth
and no matter how angry someone may become with us.
There was a time when no sane person
would advocate killing someone simply because they rejected his or her sharing
God's immutable Truth. Tragically, we are no longer at that place. God have
mercy on us!
The reasons we have reached this troubled state in our society are varied
and numerous.
I want to focus on one: the deafening
silence of Christians and Christian Churches - their failure to teach the
Truth, live It, and defend It - their failure to fraternally correct family and
loved ones who objectively live in ways contrary to God's law.
Wake up! We who have been silent in
the face of sin will be treated at the time of our particular judgment in the
same manner as the unrepentant sinner - an eternity of torture and separation
from the God.
To paraphrase, St. Jerome: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of God. The following is one portion of Scripture that we better read and
take to heart:
"Son of man, he
said to me, take into your heart all my words that I speak to you; hear them
well. Now go to the exiles, to your countrymen, and say to them: Thus says the
Lord God! — whether they heed or resist…
Thus ,the word of
the Lord came to me: Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house
of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, you shall warn them for me.
If I say to the
wicked man, You shall surely die; and you do not warn him or speak out to
dissuade him from his wicked conduct so that he may live: that wicked man shall
die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death. If, on the
other hand, you have warned the wicked man, yet he has not turned away from his
evil nor from his wicked conduct, then he shall die for his sin, but you shall
save your life.
If a virtuous man
turns away from virtue and does wrong when I place a stumbling block before
him, he shall die. He shall die for his sin, and his virtuous deeds shall not
be remembered; but I will hold you responsible for his death if you did not
warn him. When, on the other hand, you have warned a virtuous man not to sin,
and he has in fact not sinned, he shall surely live because of the warning, and
you shall save your own life.”
(Ezekiel 3:10-11, 3: 17- 21)
There is still time to turn the tide, to save our souls and of those we know and love. Regain your voice. Break your silence. Enter this spiritual battle. Share, live and defend God's Truth!
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