Live 4 The LORD

​God knew me before he created the world

God knew my every day (thought, feeling, word, & deed) before he created me

God actually knit me in the womb

God has been calling me to be His since my birth. 

I was baptized a baby. (The Holy Spirit given and seed of His divine life planted)

I was not brought up to understand God’s voice to me so I was living a worldly life. 

God still called me to do right and I sometimes could do by actual grace what he guided me to do but did not understand it was Him. 

When I committed mortal sin I lost grace like Adam and Eve. 

He kept at me and through the years I would dabble in the Bible or church. (His wooing) He never stops calling. 

Living worldly I was following the sickness of sinful ways of the world. Pride, lust, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, & greed. I could not see or understand God was wanting me to be His and that these things are destroying me and others. 

Every human heart is made for God. We have this insatiable appetite for an infinity of love, goods, power, peace, etc. but we are looking in the world to find it. God is our answer. We are looking for Him. He has placed in our souls a longing for him and we are searching the world to fill this gargantuan void. 

But God kept calling. He loves me so much he wanted to teach me that he is my Father. The perfect Father that has a perfect plan for my life. Living in peace and love in him even though the world will go against what he teaches because it does not understand that it is harmful and killing them. He will give me wisdom and power to live his ways that are healing to the soul - Holy Spirit. He wants to give me a redeemer that died for me and His blood cleanses my sin away - Jesus the Christ. God knows every part of me and has never stopped calling me since before the foundation of the world (before I was even an embryo). He is calling me to be his daughter, spouse, friend, and witness. 

God wants to save me. I have to let him save me. I do not do it, He does it in me. All I can do is give my yes to him and be willing to let Him even if it hurts the flesh because the soul heals as the flesh dies. I will be changed from natural nature to divine grace filled nature. Born again (at baptism-renewed at each repentance). 

Because He loves me so much and because He has done everything to save me if I say no, I will not live with Him forever. The only way to be with Him forever is to allow Him to change me. Sin cannot be in heaven. If I love him I will have to let Him root out the sin in me so I am fit to be with him. He is a consuming fire and the fire has to purify my soul so I can be in His presence. 

Like the sun, I cannot get close to it without a protected suit, it would kill me. Not because it hates me but because of its nature and mine. My nature has to be changed from sinner to grace filled divine. 

God is love. He wants to love me. I have to let Him. He has made a way. It is the only way. I cannot invent my own way. I must surrender to His only way. The way is to let God kill my flesh, heal my soul, teach me to love Him (which is what I was made for) and my neighbor for His sake (witness so they to can find the love they were made for). 

If I deny this love, there is no other place to go other than total isolation and separation from Him. Which would be hell because all the soul is longing for insatiably is an infinity of love, goods, power, peace, which are only found in Him. It is a choice. He gives grace to all. We have been given the highest dignity and honor to determine what we choose. We can accept the grace or reject it. 

Live for the life to come. This life is passing away. God is the savior and the answer to all your longings. Stop looking to the world to satisfy. Only God satisfies. He is worth all you have to give up here in this life. He will satisfy for eternity. If you lose Him, you will be unsatisfied and frustrated for eternity. 

Choose wisely.