How To Gain and Grow Faith
After reading this story, some may be shocked by Jesus’s cruel answers. But the story is about the process we must undergo to gain and grow our faith.
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After reading this story, some may be shocked by Jesus’s cruel answers. But the story is about the process we must undergo to gain and grow our faith.
Your heart acknowledges a certain matter as undeniably true. Now the question is what you are going to do with such acknowledgement? The advice from Jesus is to live it out in your life.
Humans have a tendency to insist their own reasoning as truth instead of seeking and finding the real truth descending from high above.
In the biblical context, to make something common is unacceptable to God, because God desires people to be holy, which means different.
I had been doing nothing but shouting out my anger and hatred, but of course these feelings are incompatible with the Divine.
Only through self-conscious choices can humans achieve their purpose of being, which is to become the image and likeness of God.
A father in this modern world is expected to be much more than the fathers in the old days although there is virtually no one to teach them how to be good fathers.
Our true self exists in a realm where chronological time does not exist, while our outer self exists in a realm where chronological time dictates everything.
We should not be concerned with the final reward we receive after our life on earth, but the people near us, and our actions toward them right here and right now.
God’s voice is not heard by minds preoccupied with their own agendas or selfish desires. That is why God shouts out to the people, “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil.”