Day 240 - God first, Others second, Me third

"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
Mark 12:29-31

Jesus teaches us the secret for a successful, humble and loving life. There is: put God first, others second, and yourself third. The reason for that is first, you please God, and He is going to be in your favour, when you start by doing things for yourself, you have no providence from God, He has no reason why to back you up, but when you start by doing things for Him, or by honouring Him, then you obtain a extra strength, a backup from The Most High, that means, the work of your hands will succeed.

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
Matthew 6:33

When Jesus said that the command to love our neighbour as yourself is just as important as to love God above all things, means that it doesn't matter who the other person is, or what he or she has done, what matters is that they are part of God's creation and we should love them because they have been made image and likeness of our Father. They are all our siblings, even if sometimes they are the bad sibling.
That's why I put this message, it makes a difference in our daily lives, it's just a matter of schedule yourself:
- God first
-Others second
-Me third

Your life will change when you do this, you will obtain God's favour and the work of your hands will be multiplied.

Day 236 - Nothing is gonna hold me back

We all have at least once experienced the terrible taste of failure. Whether is a mean word we give to someone, a lie, lust, murderer, adultery, envy, it doesn't matter what, from the smalled to the most complex, we ALL HAVE SINNED AND WE ALL DO. That miserable feeling of failure takes over us and we try to look up but it seems like we are trapped in our own actions. We feel ridiculous.

The thing is, God knows it all. He knew those things and that's why He gave us The Second Chance. That's Jesus. All the sins that we fall for today, the ones we have fallen for in the past, and even the future ones, they have all been paid for with pure holy blood.

That doesn't mean we can get comfortable, actually it's the opposite way, we MUST live a life in a perpetual state of alert. We are not meant to be mastered by anything else other than The Holy Trinity.

To do that takes a lot of work, but trust me, it's worth it. It is so worth it to have the feeling of victory instead of the instant allure of sin and then the miserable feeling of failure. Because of Jesus we can say that nothing will hold us back, nothing has the power to trap us, nothing has the power to control us. We may fall, but our Lord continues to be the Holy Lamb of God. If Jesus doesn't condemn us, than no one can, neither the devil nor ourselves.

"Then Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me". Matthew 28:18

"The one who believes in Him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God." John 3:18