Day 33 – The Father's Pain
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He prefers collaboration to competition. He desires mercy over justice. Even though He is THE JUDGE, He withholds His anger to give us chances to repent.
Instead of demanding from us, He likes to give unconditionally and abundantly. And in order to save us from eternal damnation and to be with us forever, while we were still sinners, He sacrificed His only Son so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life (John 3:16). With this kind of love, imagine how much it hurts our Heavenly Father to see us fighting with each other, and killing each other with all sorts of visible and invisible weapons. All these have pierced His Heart…
There has not been a single moment since the creation of us human beings when Our Heavenly Father is not in pain because of our sins. Not a single moment! The lance of our sin has never stopped piercing His Heart. Can you imagine what kind of pain Our God suffers as He witnesses His children fighting against and killing each other? Can you imagine that you and I are the soldier who broke open the side and pierced Jesus’ Heart?
Look at our families and the society, what are all those fights about? For wealth, power, status, fame, pleasures,…? If you say "no" to all these, then what? Let us take a deep breath and face this question! For what? What are the benefits of all these fights on earth?
Our salvation matters most to our Heavenly Father. His ultimate wish is to be united with every single child. Every single one of us that He has created, because He loves each one of us!
Our killing and fighting against each other, in whatever form, is one of the most destructive sins that will eventually suffocate and kill our souls. That is the opposite of the two most important commandments of all: Love Your God and Love Your Neighbor As Yourself.
By fighting with and killing each other, what can we gain after all?
"What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?"
REFLECTION
In what ways are you participating in these violent acts directly or indirectly?
In what ways are you like the soldier piercing the Heart of Christ with a lance? What are the behaviours and habits, in deeds or in words, that keep breaking the Father's Heart?
TODAY'S PRAYER
I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
From a Distance
This song is so beautiful, describing how the world should be and what it is like now… and more beautifully is how God is with us, only that it’s not just from a distance, He is in our midst and in each one of us! He is Emmanuel —— GOD IS WITH US!
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歷史告訴我們，人類向來都喜歡自己人打自己人，「相煎何太急」真的形容得很貼切。這一世代，是邪惡的世代，人，何時才睡醒呢？主，求你讓我做你和平的工作，不要讓魔鬼戰勝我們心。亞孟。
親愛的阿爸父，我們的惡行使祢痛心欲絕和心碎。這些都是我們的私慾偏情所致，跌進魔鬼的誘惑中。求祢助我們反思自己的思言行為上的過失，藉參與聖事，淨化心靈，悔改更新。亞孟。
親愛的天夕：
我得罪了你，我們在犯罪的時未能醒.察到對你的傷害，我們還是一次又一次地重犯，而你一次又一次的原諒我們的軟弱，求你強壯我們，使我們更懂得愛你。感謝主。
主 ! 求袮喚醒我們罪人的心，不要為自身利益而攻擊爭鬥 !
請派遣聖神堅定我們的愛德，遠離魔鬼的誘惑 !
親愛的阿爸父：我不再使祢心痛，請收納我卑微的祈禱，也請打開我的心，把祢的愛灌注其內，使我感受到祢的無奈和悲哀，我願意賠補祢所受的痛苦。主啊！請祢從我的罪惡中拯救出來，免我陷於誘惑當中。請祢改造我，使我成為祢和平和愛的工具，去治癒這個破碎的世代！
香港人話為公義而互相攻擊, 你信嗎??
本是同根生，相煎何太急。
人類互相殘殺，更破壞大自然，
正正傷透天主的心。罪滿難赦。
When I sin, I am the soldier piercing the Heart of Christ with a lance and breaking the Father’s Heart.
Wonderful and very inspiring thoughts. Thanks a lot.
我一直都每天收聽這節目。
我衷心恭喜並感謝一切協助制作這節目的人員, 特別是內容的作者和講者。真是個很難得, 精彩又富靈修反省及很適時的一個節目, 值得高度讚賞和推廣, 分享。期望今年家庭年和聖若瑟年, 也能有更多類似的好節目, 鼓勵大家珍惜家庭, 父母子女相愛共融, 發揚天父大愛的創造, 減少今日家庭破碎, 妻離子散悲劇的發生, 那就真是功德無量了。我願為此誠心禱告並祝禱成功。