Tell aching mankind to snuggle close to My merciful Heart, and I will fill it –with peace.
-Jesus to Sister Faustina
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Author: Jocelyn Soriano
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Many people accuse God of being unjust
for sending people to hell
for all eternity.
Consider however these two things:
1. It is not God who sends people to hell, but people who refuse God’s Mercy and wishes to proudly exalt themselves for all eternity. After being enlightened of everything they need to know in order to decide, will they change their minds at all after they render their eternal choice? Will they choose God above themselves? Will they choose true Love instead of human wisdom and pride?
2. Which God will be unjust? The One who after a definite time shall separate the darkness from the Light? Or the One who will forever choose to mingle the Light with the darkness that is not His?
Much of the suffering of people on earth is due to the dual nature of things upon this life. Light and darkness, day and night, good and evil. It is here where the good suffer for the evil things those of the darkness persist in doing. Will a just God forever allow that the good suffer for the evil they have not done?
Haven’t you wondered then that out of all the evil things the current world has done, it has not yet reaped the frightening recompense it deserves? Whence shall the day of Justice come at all? In truth I say that this world has not yet suffered what it deserves only by virtue of God’s Mercy, and by virtue of God allowing the time for this duality of things to exist until the intended harvest is ripe. In truth I say, it is by virtue of the suffering of the good that the evil in this world has not yet been exterminated. Were it not for such, those living in darkness would have long ago received what they deserved.
There’s a whole world of a difference between knowing that you love yourself and in knowing that you are loved. In the end, it is Jesus who spells the difference.
For though the soul may seem to rule the body admirably, and the reason the vices, if the soul and reason do not themselves obey God, as God has commanded them to serve Him, they have no proper authority over the body and the vices. For what kind of mistress of the body and the vices can that mind be which is ignorant of the true God, and which, instead of being subject to His authority, is prostituted to the corrupting influences of the most vicious demons? It is for this reason that the virtues which it seems to itself to possess, and by which it restrains the body and the vices that it may obtain and keep what it desires, are rather vices than virtues so long as there is no reference to God in the matter. For although some suppose that virtues which have a reference only to themselves, and are desired only on their own account, are yet true and genuine virtues, the fact is that even then they are inflated with pride, and are therefore to be reckoned vices rather than virtues. For as that which gives life to the flesh is not derived from flesh, but is above it, so that which gives blessed life to man is not derived from man, but is something above him; and what I say of man is true of every celestial power and virtue whatsoever.
-CITY OF GOD, ST. Augustine
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Failed expectations
What ails your heart, O, woman
and what ails your heart, O, man
expectations
that could not be met
needs that could not be satisfied
Did you think that by finding each other,
you could claim back your joy
in the garden of eden?
Did you think that by having found
each other,
you could reunite with your lost half
and finally be complete?
Nay, I say unto you,
for it is not each other that you have lost in the garden
and it is not each half that could
complete your empty soul
It is God’s presence that you have lost
and it is only in God
where you can find your bliss
once more.