Let us contemplate of God's omniscient power from Psalm 139:1-3
LORD, you have searched me, you know me: you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. You sift through my travels and my rest; with all my ways you are familiar. God is all knowing or omniscient. That is one important attribute of God. When we say that God is omniscient, it means that he has perfect knowledge of all things. He does not have to learn anything and he has not forgotten anything. God does not have to reason things out, find out things, or learn them gradually. He knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. God knows us. His knowledge of us is not passive, but an active one. It means he is constantly interested in knowing us, understanding us, helping us and protecting us. Most of all, he is interested in our hearts, He searches our heart, constantly seeking our love. God also knows when we sit down and when we rise. What it means in the spiritual level is that God knows when we drop our guard against temptation, when we chose sin rather than faith. Having known this truth, we should at least acknowledge him in every moment of our life. We should try to preserve the gifts that God grants us and fulfil his will in our lives. May God be praised. Let us contemplate on God's great mercy and forgiveness from Psalm 85:2-3.
You forgave the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sins. You withdrew all your wrath, turned back from your burning anger. Why is God so merciful? The sins of the world are such and so numerous that if God is not merciful and his divine patience not infinite, the world would have been destroyed for some time. This is well understood from the story of Noah when God destroyed almost the entire world except one righteous family. Through the family of Noah, humanity survives. The same can be understood from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah when God tried to destroy the sinful city. But God instead showed mercy and saved Sodom and Gomorrah because of Abraham's request and at least 10 people who were righteous. God said to Abraham: “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.” This gave sinful people time to return to the Lord before the time of Justice. When the time of Justice arrives, there is no more mercy. This demonstrates the power of prayer for others or prayer of intercessions for sinners. These prayers cleanse the world of sinfulness and filth which God could not tolerate. This also demonstrates the importance of living a righteous life. Sinfulness causes pain to God and his anger. On the contrary, righteous life covers a lot of sins and draw God's mercy and compassion. Brothers and sisters, we should not tire to always do what is just, what is good and what is pleasing to God. God has been given a precious gift, the gift of CFC, to learn and grow in justice, and to intercede for others. CFC is God's greatest gift for all of us. We should use acknowledge this gift and use it for the glory of God. Amen Let us contemplate on this verse from Psalm 25:6-7.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. I believe it is a basic human desire to be constantly assured that God loves us, that God remembers us, and that God forgets all our offenses. But the Bible teaches us that God is love and He loves us, whether we are good or bad. But as his children it is so sweet and reassuring to hear directly from God that he loves us. The psalmist begs God to remember. But we know that God cannot forget his beloved children even for a single instant. Even before we remember to say to God, "Remember me", God already remember us. Yes, he remembers, in his mercy, limitless in time, in number, and in power. But again it is so sweet and reassuring to hear from God that he love us. But how do we hear God's reply? Not by any sound, but by faith. This is the wonderful truth that each time we say to God I love you with sincerity, he says I love you first. So our I love you God is in truth a response to God saying I love you. Each morning when I wake up, I found myself, my soul, saying God I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. All day long inside me my soul says to God I love you. I need to remind myself that I can't say I love God sincerely on my own, but I say I love him after he tells me He loves me. This is the truth. Our loving relationship with God is a constant exchange of loving words. It begins here on earth and continues eternally in heaven. AMEN Prayer is a basic human need. It is like eating. Man needs to eat to remain physically healthy and alive.
Man needs to pray to remain spiritually healthy and alive. In other verses, Jesus said man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from God Prayer is a mark of a spiritual man. It is the channel in which a spiritual man receives spiritual nourishment. Without prayer, man's soul is empty and dry and the soul suffers. Prayer is a conversation between man and God. When the disciple ask Lord teach us to pray. Jesus answered them by saying this is how you should pray: "Our father who art in heaven holy be your name". So every prayer should start with clearly establishing the relationship between man as a son and God as a father. Prayer is therefore a son and Father speaking to each other with love, with sincerely, with trust, with faith, with full of hope. Prayer is weapon against the sneers of the devil. Never deprive yourselves of the protection of prayer. Prayer is everything: it is confession, knowledge of ourselves, repentance, a promise to ourselves and to God, a request to God, all done at the feet of the Father. Just as the disciples did, let us ask God to teach us to pray. |
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