The Value of Living Your Life.
These days a lot of people have questions about eternity and what happens next. In my 20's in fact all throughout my life, I always had an awareness of death and dying and I always had faith that there is a Heaven. I went to Catholic high school and grade school, but wasn't too formally trained, most of what I learned or experienced in school was internally believed upon. When I was 21, I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour, however I remained Catholic despite my recent conversion. What I would like to share with you, is my journey of faith.
Faith for me gives me hope. I have faced hardships in my life and became someone with a unseen disability in 1999. It wasn't a time of sadness, even though the nature of my disability causes sadness. I have been journeying with God my whole life, and the rain, symbolic for pain and suffering, falls on the just and the unjust, as the bible teaches. The root cause I have found is an unwillingness to accept our pain as something coming from a merciful God, which I believe is the root cause of all our suffering.
When pain or isolation is unbearable, we need faith to see through the world's suffering. Man causes himself to suffer, and other men and women cause each other to suffer. The hope that I have comes from recognizing the good in other people, and acknowledging that there is a God. To believe in our Creator we have to live by faith. Society teaches mankind to seek after their own goods, and their own dreams, but the secret to happiness even when you are suffering is to continue to have faith. God is seen not with physical eyes, but with the eyes of faith. The mind continues after death, and who we are after death is determined by our minds. What we think, and what we believed.
The mind or the soul carries with it all the memories, both good and bad, and our faith and belief in God goes with us. God uses this life to awaken a sense of hope and comfort, so that when we leave this world we can enter the next world forgiven. Our love and our faith determines our judgment after death, and God is merciful to all, through Jesus Christ. Yes, Jesus Christ ultimately is our judge, if he isn't our Saviour now, but that shouldn't scare you.
Faith is personal to me, so when I decide to share it, I want you to form your own opinions about God. Religion shouldn't be forced on anyone it must be accepted by faith. If you are struggling to have hope, look to centuries of people who set out to find God as their lifelong quest. An example would be the saints of the Catholic tradition and even saints of other religions. God is a God of peace and love, and anyone who says they found God must forsake violence. The bible teaches love and peace, and anyone who teaches otherwise must be corrected. This is Mike.
These days a lot of people have questions about eternity and what happens next. In my 20's in fact all throughout my life, I always had an awareness of death and dying and I always had faith that there is a Heaven. I went to Catholic high school and grade school, but wasn't too formally trained, most of what I learned or experienced in school was internally believed upon. When I was 21, I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour, however I remained Catholic despite my recent conversion. What I would like to share with you, is my journey of faith.
Faith for me gives me hope. I have faced hardships in my life and became someone with a unseen disability in 1999. It wasn't a time of sadness, even though the nature of my disability causes sadness. I have been journeying with God my whole life, and the rain, symbolic for pain and suffering, falls on the just and the unjust, as the bible teaches. The root cause I have found is an unwillingness to accept our pain as something coming from a merciful God, which I believe is the root cause of all our suffering.
When pain or isolation is unbearable, we need faith to see through the world's suffering. Man causes himself to suffer, and other men and women cause each other to suffer. The hope that I have comes from recognizing the good in other people, and acknowledging that there is a God. To believe in our Creator we have to live by faith. Society teaches mankind to seek after their own goods, and their own dreams, but the secret to happiness even when you are suffering is to continue to have faith. God is seen not with physical eyes, but with the eyes of faith. The mind continues after death, and who we are after death is determined by our minds. What we think, and what we believed.
The mind or the soul carries with it all the memories, both good and bad, and our faith and belief in God goes with us. God uses this life to awaken a sense of hope and comfort, so that when we leave this world we can enter the next world forgiven. Our love and our faith determines our judgment after death, and God is merciful to all, through Jesus Christ. Yes, Jesus Christ ultimately is our judge, if he isn't our Saviour now, but that shouldn't scare you.
Faith is personal to me, so when I decide to share it, I want you to form your own opinions about God. Religion shouldn't be forced on anyone it must be accepted by faith. If you are struggling to have hope, look to centuries of people who set out to find God as their lifelong quest. An example would be the saints of the Catholic tradition and even saints of other religions. God is a God of peace and love, and anyone who says they found God must forsake violence. The bible teaches love and peace, and anyone who teaches otherwise must be corrected. This is Mike.
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