Holy Scripture, God's Living Word, is always a major benefit in taking into our eyes and our souls, our bodies, minds, and hearts what is Truth, Beauty, and Goodness of God. I never cease to be uplifted and also oftentimes amazed all over again, at some statement that has not particularly impacted me in some way or other, next time read or heard or pondered--impacts in new ways!
I considered this morning, again from 1 Letter of John (5:7-13), the powerful impact of hearing "the testimony of God" and again, "Now the testimony of God is this...." My mind made a loop-back! What? What is God's testimony? Sounds simple enough, but of course, we humans are complicated, and simplifying is often a complicated endeavor in itself. However, God's testimony is for each of us, and requires our love, our belief in Jesus Christ, to possess the Son of God, to believe in Jesus' Name.
"Now the testimony of God is this, that He has testified on behalf of His Son. Whoever believes in the Son o fGod has this testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe, God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony God has given about His Son.
"And this is the testimony:
God gave us eternal life,
and this life is in His Son.
Whoever possesses the Son has life;
Whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life.
"I write these things to you so that you may know
that you have eternal life,
you who believe in the name of the Son of God."
Yes, so that we may know that we have eternal life--the Apostle John writes these words to us--those of us who believe in the name of the Son of God!
In my on-going quest of love of God in Himself, of union with the Holy Trinity, all that I can learn and of which to be reminded in the Living Word of God, helps and is so very positive. I'm also at a major point in my life and circumstances, that expunging negativity and filling in with positivity is a focused effort of which I'm trying to be prayerfully aware and to seek the Holy Spirit's guidance in decisions and interactions, in sensitivity to others' moods, attitudes, desires, needs.
I did make the two largish decisions the other day. Both are quite positive--choice and movement in positivity, and the one in particular in making another's life be more positive. The lesser but major choice as for my circumstances and effort involved, can be a positive very much so, in that I am trying to bring in more positive to my daily life since the pain and suffering have been so great in the past year, and there have been some negative aspects that I must avoid, for they are not of God. However, I have no idea if the positive potential of my lesser decision will end up being possible as it requires effort on my part. However, I decided it is a risk to take, and there are always ways out of temporal decisions if we try and they turn out we over-estimated such as physical stamina.
But what is always a decision of which the doors of love and positivity always open, and the Lord there to always greet us with love and peace, with mercy...and promise of eternal life, we always have assurance that God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit are decisions that rely only on our faith, our belief, our daring to believe and to hope in God, and to love His Real Presence, the Holy Trinity!
God bless His Real Presence in us! Little children, let us love one another, for God Is Love!
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