Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me, says the Lord (Mt 25). Be then blessed by the Father and inherit the kingdom. The Lord tells Moses that He is divine. God encourages all mankind to be like Him, divine, and today's mass reading from Liviticus demonstrates clearly that through carefully controling ones thoughts, speach, motivations and resulting behaviour, one can willingly come closer to that Divine. A choice. Not at the mercy of passions or influences of the material world, God asks us to be like him and love your neighbor as yourself. Father, Son and Holy Ghost, we are tied, interwoven like a family, brothers and sisters, sharing divinity. A Father would not ask the impossible of his children. Though me might have demanded it, threatening, instilling fear, a good father can see the results of his upbringing. Jesus came to tell us this;Love each other, Father asks. Love each other as i love you, he tells us, again and again and again, and let's us know this love through His mercy and grace.
So to be like our Father, we can start by observing our Selves. Anger? Greed? Fear? Feigned ignorance? Thoughtlessness? What is it that prevents us from 'doing the right thing'? Jesus shows us the way once again. Do as i do, he says, feeding the hungry or clothing the naked. Putting others before our own (perceived) need; generous with our energy, time, talents and divine capacity of love and grace. Self-gratification is a lie, an illusion, created by fear and a perceived separation from all that is divine. Look into your heart, reach out to others and know that divinity that we share.
Heaven is knowing the glory of divine love in our own hearts and seeing the paradise around us thrive at the mindful attention of our own hands. Hell? Eternal punishment? The Lord says that "what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me" will lead to falling short of the divine, of not standing beside Him in glory and of not inheriting the kingdom of Love. Again, choosing Self-gratification, of chosing ones Self before a brother, of not sharing, not giving, not caring and not loving. We reap what we sow. For me, Hell would be standing in this darkness, this absence of Love, by my own choice, my own free will. Hell is refusing the Father's offered mercy and grace, showing pride of Self, love of Self, allowing anger, fear and other poisons of the mind to keeps us in our own darkness, the lie of separation, terrible isolation, the Self-created absence of Love that is not God's Reality.
Choose wisely!
Deo gratias.
So to be like our Father, we can start by observing our Selves. Anger? Greed? Fear? Feigned ignorance? Thoughtlessness? What is it that prevents us from 'doing the right thing'? Jesus shows us the way once again. Do as i do, he says, feeding the hungry or clothing the naked. Putting others before our own (perceived) need; generous with our energy, time, talents and divine capacity of love and grace. Self-gratification is a lie, an illusion, created by fear and a perceived separation from all that is divine. Look into your heart, reach out to others and know that divinity that we share.
Heaven is knowing the glory of divine love in our own hearts and seeing the paradise around us thrive at the mindful attention of our own hands. Hell? Eternal punishment? The Lord says that "what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me" will lead to falling short of the divine, of not standing beside Him in glory and of not inheriting the kingdom of Love. Again, choosing Self-gratification, of chosing ones Self before a brother, of not sharing, not giving, not caring and not loving. We reap what we sow. For me, Hell would be standing in this darkness, this absence of Love, by my own choice, my own free will. Hell is refusing the Father's offered mercy and grace, showing pride of Self, love of Self, allowing anger, fear and other poisons of the mind to keeps us in our own darkness, the lie of separation, terrible isolation, the Self-created absence of Love that is not God's Reality.
Choose wisely!
Deo gratias.
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