individual lives

Nothing more mercifully, more patiently, or more recurrently solicits us, in each of our individual lives, I think, than the interest of our learning how to move closer to God, how to be more like Christ in all of our daily activities, and how to live and encourage lives filled with compassion, hope, and love; the Christian, the true Christian, and above all the particular behaviors which are displayed which reflects the beauty and truth of the Word will help all who believe and obey it to reach God’s kingdom. If our lives are filled with concern, compassion, and love equally for ourselves and our neighbors, nothing will be hard for us to bear as long as offer all of our prayers, dreams, and fears to God consistently throughout each day of our lives, never stopping, never waivering. If our lives are a testament to God and his glory, love, mercy are asserted in both our actions and our deeds, then our lives will contain and inspire natural and honest humility, charity, and sacrifice. Each one of us have an individual identity with God; we each have private and personal questions to ask God; we each have to work out ways to listen to God in our lives; we must always believe and always be patient that God will reach out and touch us. We may want to believe that our lives are just a random collection of accidents and coincidences. There is a danger in this reasoning, it minimizes the reality that we are all loved by God, we are all special to God, we all have a specific purpose assigned by God. Each day each of have infinite chances to do God’s work, to share God’s Word; and each day each of us have infinite choices to follow Christ, to bear witness and use all of our lives changes for the glory and benefit of God. Our personal history can make of strong in our faith and our love for God. God does not ask us to be perfect, to be a genius. God only asks that we believe his Word and make it the basis of our lives. Faith can draw us into God’s adventure, sometimes as absolute observers, absolute participants. Our spiritual lives should naturally be filled with curiosity and inquiry, leading us on a journey to learn more about God, his mystery and our Christian experience (I mean, needless to say, when we are at all spiritually minded our lives will always be ascendant, always be in motion, always be prayerful); but there is something beautiful and calming in the clear comforting embrace of the spiritual nature, in simple terms, within each of us there should always be a continual discernment, question of vocation, desire to affirm our purpose for living is always to be God’s instruments of love, hope, and mercy. Serving God is a happy exercise in faith and love.