We cry out in
travails and make excuse for ourselves why we should betray our Creator in
order to steal from our parents/neighbors/offices/schools/relations/enemies
e.t.c, defile our body and soul in masturbation/sudar-daddy & mummy
affairs/pornography/adultery/fornication/lesbianism/homosexuality/incest/prostitution/drug
trafficking & addictions/smoking/gluttoness/drunkenness/insults on
parents/lying lips/partying-spirit/envy/jealousy/heresy/apostasy/indecent projection
and exposure of our body parts in the lodges/streets/internets/markets/offices/schools
with tight & mini tops/gowns/skirts, show back/breast/underwear/laps
clothes, transparent clothes, boxers, bomb-shorts, trousers, strapless tops
e.t.c with a back-up phrase of ‘God will understand & His mercies endures
forever’ even those who wear long gowns and skirts which they easily roll up
for a fling, quickie, fingering and five minutes sex under the belief that
nobody saw you remember ‘…I know about your behavior: how you are reputed to be
alive and yet are dead’ (Rev.3:1) and amidst all these and many more which
Christ saw in us he decided to take our curse on himself that we might be saved
{‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by being cursed for our sake
since scripture says: Anyone hanged is accursed’ Gal.3:13} hence fulfilling the
will of the Father under agonies and pain yet His Father did not spare him (“it
was God’s good pleasure to crush him with pain; if he gives his life as a sin
offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his life and through him God’s
good pleasure will be done” Isaiah 53:10) thus he cried out “And about the
ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eli, eli, lama sabachthani? that
is , My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mtt.27:46) It is a cry in the
mysterious language of Hebrew to express the tremendous mystery of a God “abandoned”
by God. The Son calls His Father, God. What a contrast with a prayer He once
taught: “Our Father, who art in Heaven!” In some strange, mysterious way His
human nature seems separated from His Heavenly Father and yet not separated,
for otherwise how could He cry, “My God, My God”? But just as the sun’s light
and heat can be withdrawn from us by the intervening clouds, though the sun
remains in the sky, so there was a kind of withdrawal of His Father’s Face in
the terrible moment in which He took upon Himself the sins of the world. This
pain and desolation He suffered for each of us, that we might know what a
terrible thing it is for human nature to be without God, to be deprived of a
Divine Remedy and Consolation, but did not give up rather believed, trusted and
commended His soul to His Father ‘…Father, into your hands I commit my spirit…’
(Lk.23:46) thus in moments of family crisis, life- challenges, sinful-desires
stick-in with God and his righteousness because “after the ordeal he has
endured, he will see the light and be content…” {Isaiah 53:10} and ‘you love
uprightness and detest evil. This is why God, your God has anointed you with
the oil of gladness, as none of your rivals’ [Heb.1:9].
For those who
say there is no hell-fire because God cannot allow his creatures that he
professed to love [‘God has appeared to me from afar; I have loved you with an
everlasting love and so I still maintain my faithful love for you’ Jer.31:3] to
suffer eternally under pain, torture and agony in hell-fire (Rev.20:15) have you forgotten what happened to Korah’s
family and the 250 levi who protested against Moses and Aaron as we have in
people who are today dividing against the one Church instituted by Christ on
Peter and the obedient succession of apostolic link of the Holy, One, Catholic
and Apostolic Church (‘…these banded together against Moses and Aaron and said
to them, you take too much on yourselves! The whole community, all its members
are consecrated and God lives among them. Why set yourselves higher than God’s
community?...Moses said, this is how you will know that God himself has sent me
to perform all these tasks and that I am not doing them of my own accord…the
moment he finished saying all this, the ground split apart under their feet,
the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their families, all Korah’s
people and all their property…fire then shot out from God and consumed the two
hundred and fifty men offering incense’ Numb.16:1-35) and the God of that
period has not changed neither is he dealing with another people apart from his
creatures sprung from the race of Adam and eve down to Jacob and Sarah {“No; I
the Lord, do not change; and you have not ceased to be children of Jacob”
Mal.3:6} or suffer the effects of mortal sins already forgiven [‘… you were a
God of forgiveness to them, but punished them for their sins’ Ps.99:8] or
venial sins not forgiven (“…there is a sin that leads to death and I am not
saying you must pray about that. Every kind of wickedness is sin, but not all
sin leads to death” 1Jn.5:16-17) before death in purgatory since we refused to
atone for them here with mortification (Acts.13:2), alms-giving {Tobith 4:11},
living a life of testimony for Christ (Mtt.10:32-33), honest and sincere
repentance using the sacrament of
reconciliation [Jn.20:22-23] from evil desire to a craving for holiness in all
ramifications {Heb.1:9} bearing in mind that “nothing unclean may come into it:
no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those who are listed in
the Lamb’s book of life” (Rev.21:27).
Finally, if
God did not spare his only beloved son that pain and agony on the cross in
order to provide us with all the heavenly Grace, Strength and Power to overcome
the enemy in moments of trials to prove our loyalty for Him which men of old
like Enoch, Elijah, Abraham, Moses e.t.c showed even without their encounter
with God made man (Christ) how do we think God will spare our sinful-generation
who have both the knowledge {“…by his knowledge, the upright one, my servant
will justify many by taking their guilt on himself” Isaiah 53:11} of the law
complimented by Grace of the Calvary in forms of water and blood from His
precious wound (‘…through his bruises you have been healed’ 1 Pet.2:24) hence
as you excuse yourself in any sin remember “if after we have been given
knowledge of the truth, we should deliberately commit any sins, then there is
no longer any sacrifice for them. There is left only the dreadful prospect of
judgment and of the fiery wrath that is to devour your enemies” {Heb.10:26-27},
‘there is no favoritism with God’ [Rom.2:11], and “He never commanded anyone to
be godless, he has given no one permission to sin” (Sirach 15:20), then those
who are yearning as well as walking in righteousness remember “Everyone, no
matter how firmly he thinks he is standing, must be careful he does not fall”
[1 Cor.10:12], ‘but anyone who stands
firm to the end will be saved’ {Mtt.24:13} and “I am coming soon: hold firmly
to what you already have and let no one take your victor’s crown away from you”
(Rev.3:11).
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