I recently gave a talk in church that
was based on a talk called Living the Gospel Joyfully and
while I was speaking the Lord in my mind asked me to compare the
blessings that Lord attempts to give to a proverb from Star Wars;
Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering.
While giving this talk it came to me
that when we put up our umbrella to resist the rain of blessings or
the sunshine of the light of Christ shine upon us. The turn around is
that when we see others get the blessings of heaven and our own sins
blind us from seeing our own blessings we are quick to become
fearful. Has God forgotten me? Am I worthy of no blessing at all?
Our own ambitions and hesitancy keeps us from pressing in a good
direction that would lead us to strengthen our faith and regain our
blessings through repentance and the charity of God; we go down a
path of witch many have not returned. As children of God we know all
to well that the proverb of the Jedi ring true but there was no
alternate so that we could avoid this path so I propose this one...
Faith leads to Trust, Trust leads to
Charity, Charity leads to Happiness. I know that it might seem cheesy
by making a mirror of this age old movie quote but I think that
seeing its opposite opens our eyes so that we can see both the good
and the evil paths and make our new choices with what we have
learned.
When we are quick to judge because we
decide to look at the blessings of others over what is on the other
side of the scale that they are called to balance, we fail to realize
the blessings we have in conjunction with our own blessings. Let us
remember to have faith so that we might build upon that over fear.
Lets hope that we do not listen to our fear and short comings over
our faith and inner power that God has given us both to grow with and
share. We have the makings of greatness in us, let us bear one
another's burdens and show the strength of the Lord.
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