The love of God

Blessings come very clear sometimes and very unclear sometimes.
Things that are seemingly terrible may be a blessing. Take, for example, an overweight person having a heart attack. Seems awful and scary. That might be what it took for this person to make a serious change in their life.When people fall away from the Lord, which happens to everyone, there must be something to bring you and me back to Him. Sometimes God makes it clear to us; sometimes not. It may take him having a “religious heart attack,” as I call it, to find and see clear what was shady before.
How does this work and apply to us today?
Our Lord sends us messengers in many forms…sometimes to talk to us, sometimes to make mistakes with, sometimes simply to be a role model. As I said in my last post, Mary is our model in holiness. Since Mary and our Lord are not physically here in the human form to talk and guide us, He sends others into our lives. It’s no coincidence when someone comes into your life and mine and want to help us. There’s a joke about a man drowning and he isn’t worried because he thinks God will save him. He swims and swims and finally a boat comes by and the driver says come aboard and I’ll bring you to safety and the man says, “no no God will save me.” The same thing happens with a ski jet and a helicopter and eventually the man drowns. He gets to heaven and says “God, I trusted in you and you let me down.” God says to the man “you fool – I sent you a rescue three times and you denied it each time.”
The excuse of I wasn’t raised believing or it was forced on me or all of these reasons to disregard truth is simply wrong. The Holy Bible tells us seek and you shall find. If you truly want God in your life, He will come into it. He’s not going to give you a pony or appear at your beside. We need to be less close minded in our search for Him because God comes to us in A LOT of ways today.
God comes to us in prayer, love, confession, the eucharist, marriage, the Gospel, and the rest of the sacraments. Remember the Latin word sacramentum means "a sign of the sacred."
The two last points are number one we need to be able to say I was wrong. Sometimes we let feelings get in the way of truths. To that I’ll be the first to say I was wrong, I am sorry, please forgive me Lord. Number two if we fall away from God because of temptation in one way, it doesn’t disregard all the other things we do correctly. If you fight the demon of lust, it doesn’t make your prayers for say abortion, murder, etc any less important or helpful. As I said in my last post, not one thing defines our relationship with God. We are more than married, divorced, gay, straight, liar, honest ect. We are first followers of a Lord who loves us more than we can begin to imagine. Sins don’t make God love you and me and less. It means we are weak because we are human. Every single one of us sins every day. What we can do about that is not feel sorry for ourselves but work on ourselves by listening to God. Say God I have tried to love you, what to do you want for me today – here and now.
May you grow in the love of Jesus Christ forever
-Brian