Divine
Encouragement and Inspiration (1)
FROM OUR FILES
November 28th, 2010
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Our Lord Jesus
Christ
is speaking to His children thus...
What
would I do if I
watched the Evening News? Any evening News.
How could I
possibly tolerate the violence, poverty, injustice and hopelessness that ravage your
communities?
Would I not suffer by
the inability of those who claim to be My followers to find a way to restore hope,
dignity and relevance to the victims?
Did not My Father
made man in His Image and let them have dominion over all the earth and
what it contained? [
Genesis 1: 26]
Did not I
say "...he that believeth
in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than
these shall he do"?
[John 14:12]
How
then, with the
Power We have given you over Creation you....
....squander
your time and talents generating fame and fortune, while neglecting
your own family and
community?
....blindly leave it up
to governments to
assist your struggling global neighbors,
blindly trusting that they will automatically do what is right and just?
....can be comfortable with
a society where the
rich get richer and the poor
poorer?
...are suspicious of
people who are different
than yourself?
....
get
enjoyment from scandalous gossip?
Would I be indifferent
to the pillaging of God's creation, all to satisfy the extravagant needs
of one or two generations while condemning all future ones to live in
a world stripped of its life-giving beauty?
Would I be content to
go on with My own life, oblivious of the suffering of - the rejected - the
homeless - the unemployed - the
elderly -
the sick - the forgotten - the lonely - the hopeless - the hungry - the abused -
the oppressed?
You call yourself a
follower of Christ, but are you really? If you examine the focus of your
everyday actions and your priorities - how closely do you
find that
they would match what I would do in your place?
In the Gospel, you
learn how I was surrounded by suffering and, with compassion, brought hope and
healing into the world - this was My mission!
How much of your time and
efforts do you devote to living this mission and continuing the legacy I left in
the care of My followers?
Do you think it is
enough to simply donate
a small portion of
our excess
to those less fortunate than yourself?
Or is there
more yet that you can do and
should do?
When a child in Africa,
whose village has been decimated by AIDS and drought, cries out to
God - Why God appears to be silent and the hunger continues?
When a child, whose
home is surrounded by bombs, gunfire and the screams of the dying, cries out
to God - Why God appears to be silent and the dying continues?
When a child
prostitute, helplessly trapped in the slums of Calcutta, cries out to
God - Why God appears to be silent and the suffering continues?
Is it really God
who is silent? Or is it you who have chosen to ignore God's call to be
His healing hands, His voice of justice, and His eyes and ears of
compassion?
Think about this while
you have time
for when you stand before My Throne of Judgment, it will be entirely
too late....
miguel de
Portugal commented then:
I
do not make the Rules or the Laws - I just remind the world of
them. Let us not forget that World War II "just didn't happen" -
God allowed it in the face of
man's disobedience.
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Disclaimer
A Reminder: Men
of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This
same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same
way you have seen him go into
heaven. [Acts 1:11]
(1) Although
miguel de
Portugal was not the original transmission instrument for the above, he
assures the faithful, from
first hand personal knowledge,
that what is read above is true
and from Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit of God will confirm the
validity of our statement to
those who
have ears to hear and
eyes to see.
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