Recently I learned...
1. that freedom is the right of all sentient beings. (Optimus Prime)
2. that it was for freedom that Christ has set us free. (Saint Paul)
3. that the Letter to the Hebrews in the Bible commonly believed to be written by St. Paul wasn't a letter at all. In fact, it wasn't even addressed to the Hebrew people. And... scholars don't even think it written by Paul.
It is actually a sermon written to Christians in Rome, possibility by St. Clement, the first Pope or someone around that era. It was addressed to 2nd or 3rd generation Christians.
So even though it wasn't written by Paul in a form of a letter addressed to Hebrews, it is the very words of the Holy Spirit to us.
4. that If there's anything necessary to your eternal happiness but God, you're not the kind of Christian that you ought to be. For only God is the true rest.
5. that evil is not a deficiency, a lack of something. If someone is ill, we say he lacks health. If someone is poor, he lack money etc.
But when we speak of evil, we need to realise that it is not caused by a lack oof something. Evil is not a deficiency but a efficiency. When we face an existing evil, we face a person. Evil is not a corruption of goodness but a personality. His name is devil.
"We must actively fight this enemy, terrible and invisible, who set snares for our lives and against whom we must defend ourselves." - Pope Paul VI, 1972
6. that Jesus came to undo the works of the evil one.
7. that I can make a difference in this world if I allow God to use me to bring His love and reality to as many people as possible.
Even if it demands a lot from me. Because its what Jesus gave His life for - it demanded His very own life.
God, teach me pray -
"Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will."
- St. Ignatius
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will."
- St. Ignatius
God Bless,
Leo
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