Eternal life overcomes the culture of death
In our first reading, from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, we hear him tell his recent converts to faith in Jesus Christ – and we hear him tell us –“Have no anxiety at all, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
“Have no anxiety at all.” That’s easy to say but hard to do. We are anxious about our health, our jobs, our families, and today in particular, we are anxious about protecting innocent human life at its very vulnerable beginnings. But our faith in God challenges us to cast our cares upon the Lord because he cares for us. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was famous for saying that God does not call us to be successful but to be faithful.
Too often we are anxious because we are used to assuming that everything depends on us, that we are responsible for seeing to it that what we work on for God must turn out perfectly, completely, and soon. But God often calls us to begin or continue a work that will be fulfilled long after we are gone.
As one poet has said, we will plant trees in the shade of which others will sit, but we will not. We begin what others continue in the service of the kingdom of God.
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No follower of Christ can expect to be always upbeat, never struggling with emotions, hardships, and mixed feelings. God knows this. That is why you pray each and every day. That is why you ask the Lord to help you along and restore your faith. It is the road you must walk on. Just walk on the narrow way, keep short accounts with Jesus, and He will make sure you make it to glory.
-John J FlanaganExcellent, perfectly written description of GOD'S expectation for HIS people. We are to be fruitful, as GOD'S design, not by anything we do, other than obedience to HIS WORD. We are told to witness to preach HIS WORD, the gathering in is HIS to do and we must be an example of HIS great love for HIS people.
In HIS word, because Satan is continuance in his war against GOD and HIS people, we will see struggle, failure, depression, as we strive to do HIS biddings. The only answer to that, is "GIVE IT TO HIM, HE WILL HANDLE IT." We try to do it on our own, so often and therefore, cannot succeed unless, we let go and turn it over to HIM.
-MyrtlelinderThere is no such thing as eternal life. As I have often noted you can see the result of losing your memory in advanced Alzheimers patients. All their memories are lost when their brain "dies". This is what happens to everybody's brain when they die. All the information is GONE. Cannot possibly be an afterlife or heaven. That was all made up by people that didn't understand how the body work and how memories were stored.
Their science was wrong.
-Chris PWouldn't it terrible for you to find out one day that your assessment was wrong, and everything was just the opposite. Only then it would be too late for you to change.
-Michael G.I feel sorry for you. You are so cock-sure you're right, only your mind is slammed shut.
I hope you figure this out before it's too late.
There IS a heaven and a hell. And there will be NO non-believers in either. Think about it!
-CommieKiller@Chris P — You may wish to leave the door open on this one.
It could turn out that there is a part of you that will do just fine after you die. The part of you which knitted itself to a little baby body many years ago. It may be that you are a composite being.
Life after Life could turn out to be an 'Oh, wow!" Wait and see !
-JhanDavis