March 30, 2010
I've read the entire Bible once and I've been hearing verses and excerpts during masses and I've been reading ang rereading verses and excerpts but I have not hit upon the answer to the question of why God created me in particular. It might sound and look like a self-centered question, but the answer is the foundation of how I would like to live the rest of my life.Sure, I have plans and dreams for what remains of my life which I am praying to GOD for realization, and I am praying that those plans and dreams are part of God's purpose for my life. Maybe I'm too presumptous to be asking that, but it would be nice to know , me, nearing senior citizenship in a few years.
Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known. " According to God's word, may I ask, please. Some thoughts have crossed my mind -- such as that God loves me and therefore created me so I could keep Him company; that God wants me to be a showcase of His love and generous abundance and become His 'apple of the eye'. Thinking like a spoiled brat , I admit, but I think it would be wonderful to God's pampered 'spoiled brat' . It is very delightful to be thinking along those lines. On my part , I know that I would like to serve God and obey Him in all things and become a delight to Him.. On the cosmic scale, I really want to feel like 'Daddy's girl' .. Is that being presumptuous?
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Imago Dei
March 29, 2010
I've always been intrigued, fearfully so, by this piece of information from the Bible. That God created man in His image is such a huge, mindblowing information. How does one interpret it and apply it to one's ordinary, every day life? I mean, hellow, God is sooooo UP THERE!!! in creative power,strength, love, loving-kindness, forgivingness, generousity and all those good, great character traits and abilities while I'm so painfully aware of my own weaknesses, faults, sins, mistakes, failures, powerlessness, negativities,bad temper and thoughts and all such things ... Then a realization , which presented itself in a wee, almost unnoticeable way, almost like a whisper and the gentlest of breezes, almost like a tingling baby's breath on one's check , came and intimated in the remembered verse about the 'Vine and the branches' , on 'abiding in God and God abiding in one's internal life/spirit', about 'the Kingdom of God being inside you..' .... And behold, it's quite very reasonable, logical and profoundly simple ... that one can only be an image of God if God dwells in one's spirit and innards , one's soul, mind, heart and body which is another way of saying that one loves God with all of one's soul, body, heart and mind and when one connects with God all the time, every moment ...Whew !
I've always been intrigued, fearfully so, by this piece of information from the Bible. That God created man in His image is such a huge, mindblowing information. How does one interpret it and apply it to one's ordinary, every day life? I mean, hellow, God is sooooo UP THERE!!! in creative power,strength, love, loving-kindness, forgivingness, generousity and all those good, great character traits and abilities while I'm so painfully aware of my own weaknesses, faults, sins, mistakes, failures, powerlessness, negativities,bad temper and thoughts and all such things ... Then a realization , which presented itself in a wee, almost unnoticeable way, almost like a whisper and the gentlest of breezes, almost like a tingling baby's breath on one's check , came and intimated in the remembered verse about the 'Vine and the branches' , on 'abiding in God and God abiding in one's internal life/spirit', about 'the Kingdom of God being inside you..' .... And behold, it's quite very reasonable, logical and profoundly simple ... that one can only be an image of God if God dwells in one's spirit and innards , one's soul, mind, heart and body which is another way of saying that one loves God with all of one's soul, body, heart and mind and when one connects with God all the time, every moment ...Whew !
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