Day 5 – Jesus, I Trust in You!
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Our life experiences make it hard for us to comprehend the Father's love. Oftentimes we have doubts about His fairness and impartiality towards each of His children. Truly, it is hard for us to comprehend when we witness all the unfairness in this world. As humans, we try to make sense of what is happening around us. There seems to be a huge gap between what the world is telling us and what Jesus is revealing to us about His Heavenly Father's love.
Indeed, it is hard to believe that the Father's love is so unconditional and impartial in nature. Unfairness in this world aside, it is as incomprehensible that we cannot make God love us more by behaving better or working harder, nor can we make God love us less by our failures or sinfulness!
His love for us is constant and without cost! It is freely given and is to be freely received.
As we continue this Lenten journey, we need to have the basic trust in the God whom we claim we believe in. We need to believe in what Jesus, our Saviour, tells us from His own mouth (that is, through the Scripture). Without this foundation, our journey home will be a guaranteed failure. It is as if we have opened the door for Satan and its lies to mercilessly sever our relationship with God.
Ask yourself:
To whom can we go? Who else is more trustworthy than God?
REFLECTION
Examine your heart again. Do you really believe from the bottom of your heart what Jesus has revealed about His Father’s unfailing love for you through the three parables (Luke 15) is true?
TODAY'S PRAYER
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.
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In the past, I sometimes considered God’s unfailing love as ‘unfair’ like what the elder son thought as in the parable ‘The Prodigal Son’. I was too conceited to think that I have been obeying God’s commandments, without realizing that me too, is the lost sheep, the lost coin. God’s love is not to be ‘earned’, but given to us unconditionally.
God, help me to love you more and lead a life according to Your will.
失落的祢會尋找，迷路的祢會領回！領洗後經過聖神燃起火與熱！但幾十年來由熱變泠郤。祈望復興之火幫助我這迷途的羔羊，得找着称主耶穌基督來退却疫情，好使世界回復正常生活。經濟甦醒，弱勢國家都有疫苗保護。讚美主！感謝主！
耶穌，我相信祢是我們的救主，真理的導師。雖然我不能完全明白祢所講的道理，但我相信祢是向我們表達天父的旨意。我願意跟隨祢，渴慕與祢同在，结合了一。求賜恩寵的力量和信德，使能日益肖似祢。我願在四旬內，悔改更新，與祢一起逾越。亞孟。
很好。多謝。
天父白白地付出，我們也該白白地接受。主！我樂意接受祢的愛和寬恕！我深信天父對我們無盡的愛，請教我常與祢常在一起！
是的。唯有相信天主是愛, 祂永遠都一樣愛我們, 無論我們是好是壤, 祂都一樣愛我們, 不會放棄我, 除非是我們不肯愛祂, 不願相信祂。不然的話, 祂就不可能是我們所相信的天主, 耶穌也不可能會是那個降生受苦死在十字架上的天主了。
所以, 就算天下人人都不愛我, 有天主, 全能, 全知, 全善的天主愛我, 我怕什麼呢。我又為什麼還不放心呢?
我深信天主是愛我的。在日常生活中感覺主派遣聖神帶領我走的路，無論順境逆境都全信靠祂。
主耶穌你若問我你是誰？我肯定的回答你是全能的主，能知過去，現在和未來全能的天主，求你不要捨棄我，永遠與我在一起，主感謝您
主，願祢消滅邪惡的火焰，好讓大地感受到祢給的喜樂平安??
我是罪不可恕的，也不只三次，而是再三又再三反誠諾地反錯，根本不值得天父恆常的愛。?♂️
感謝天主對我們無條件的愛。願我們也能效法天主對我們的愛，去愛我們身邊的人?
天主，我們感謝您，我們讚美您?
「不是你們揀選了我，而是我揀選了你們。」(若15:16)記得有一次參加一位神父晉鐸廿五週年的感恩祭，他在分享自己聖召的歷程時，他第一句話是這樣說：「我非常感謝天主相信了我廿五年，因為在這廿五年來，是祂親自引領我，使我在這鐸職生活不致失足跌倒……。」在場參禮的信眾，聽到了這番話，都感到愕然！
的確，筆者回顧這四十多年光景，若不是天主懷着這份耐性和慈悲，縱然離開了祂，祂仍相信我們總有一天回到祂身邊。這莫大的恩澤，實在令筆者悲喜交集，無一不是祂先愛了我們！
仁慈的天父，是祢首先相信了我，且不斷以祢的愛寬恕了我，讓我領受祢的恩澤。求祢時刻在這四旬期內，潔淨我的心靈，使我能一心歸向祢。亞孟。
Lord in the past i do not know who you are. But now i know who you are now. You are a God who is looking at me all my years of hardship and is always there for me. You teach me to be humble and in all my years and grant me a grace to be humble. You hava called me and i accept the calling.
Now you are my only one who have changed me. You are God who always listened to my pray. You are my saviour, my rock and my everything.
Increse my faith and to trust you completely.
很有得著。。 講解者溫柔、清晰的演繹，真要一讚！明白天父的大愛，完完全全感受得到。
感謝、讚美天主?
A good spiritual nourishment. A bit a day, our little plant is growing and flourishing everyday. Thank you and God bless us all!
天主，感謝你給予我生命，我是屬於你的。我或坐或企你都知道，我身在何處你都與我同在，我是離不開你的。我相信你唔會捨棄我，我好有安全感，因為全賴有你。
天主，你是我的一切。
感謝你！讚美你！
想問 (是否從心底相信耶穌透過那三個比喻) 指邊3個
路加福音第15章
牧羊的比喻，失钱的比喻及荡子的比喻
thanks a lot
我們更清楚天主對罪人的那份慈愛，以及無論我們的罪有多重，我們有多破碎，每個孩子在天父眼中都是那麼重要及矜貴。讓我們窺探到天父對我們每個人的愛有多深。 祂最終的心願，就是我們與祂永遠在一起；而我們的悔改，讓我們踏上回歸父家的旅程。
多谢天主的白白付出，我们要好好回应。
Jesus is my best friend. He is King of the universe. Often when I pray my rosary, I thought of my petitions instead of meditating on the mysteries of the rosary and not trusting in God in answering my prayers according to His will.
慈愛的天父，祢是萬事萬物的主宰，時刻知道我們的需要，為我們安排最好的，祢待我們的愛恆久不變，我們感恩讚美祢，願我們能好好效發，多留意別人的需要，以愛德作奉獻，為他人送上祝福。