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If we sin, it is because we do not meditate on the savior's death at Calvary,
because we have practically lost the sense of his sacrifice.
we should each day, pour more closely over the word of God,
meditate upon the life of the savior, his death, his resurrection,
and preach Christ crucified, Christ resurrected.
Quite often, when we suffer, we forget how much Jesus also has suffered in our place.
We tend to overlook or forget the great sacrifices he accepted in order to redeem us.
Jesus suffered when he was fasting.
Today, do we fast with him in order to get the victory over our sins?
Our self-indulgence in eating and drinking, and in giving up our ego makes us weak.
Jesus fasted during 40 days,
but very often we hesitate to do it ourselves,
to seek the communion with him in fasting and prayer.
To recieve the victory!
When we have to endure trials,
are we looking to Jesus?
When the fire of the purification overtakes us, we are weak and cry out.
We do not want to suffer with Christ,
and yet it is for us
that our adorable savior died.
He says to us, "I died for you;
I gave my life for you!
Now I live!
I have resurrected from the dead
so that no one shall perish,
but that all may inherit eternal life."
Are we seizing hold of this grace?
This eternal life which is being offered to us?
We have a choice;
we either consider this death of the savior
as an ordinary death and continue to live in sin,
or else we consider that this death
is that of the son of God,
who died for us.
So we can be victorious over every sin!
It was shown to me that today the world is living
as if Jesus died for nothing,
and that there is neither hope nor salvation.
And even among ourselves,
some of us are in doubt
as to the soon return of Jesus;
and do not live the life of the savior,
but live complacently in sin.
Jesus loves us.
He carried his heavy cross,
and he drank the cup of bitterness
and pain in our place.
He tells us,
"Let those who believe in me
take up their cross and follow me." Matthew 16:24.
The Lord Jesus
carried his cross on his back
and held the cup of woe in his hands;
a crown of thorns adorned his brow.
What a terrible reality
inflicted on the son of God!
Jesus places in our cup
a drop of his sufferings.
Just one drop,
that is very little
when compared with
all that he had to drink in our place.
Don't we wish to share his sufferings when we ourselves are unloved?
when we share the insults he suffered?
when we want to remain faithful to him and are persecuted?
Jesus bore all those afflictions.
Some people want to be christians,
but not to suffer with Jesus
when the testing arrives.
Let us take up our cross
and follow him
whatever the weight of that cross,
whether heavy or light,
let us stay faithful to him
and not take our gaze from Jesus.
He is always the same;
he changes not.
By love he remained nailed to that cross,
for you, for me.
Is not that wonderful when we were lost?
Jesus suffered the most ignominious death that exists.
See the grief and suffering of Mary,
his mother,
overcome at the foot of the cross.
She, who had put all her hopes
on this gentle son, so tender,
had to see him die in that fashion -
she who had hoped, like so many others,
that her son would re-establish the kingdom of Israel.
Jesus will bear always
through eternity
the scars of the cross,
so that the entire universe
may understand the immense sacrifice
of his love for human beings.
He said,
"I am the living one,
I am the Eternal, your God."
If we meditate more on his death on the cross,
we will understand how God is love,
and we would draw on that love
in order to perfect our relations
between brothers and sisters.
Jesus told us,
"Love one another as I have loved you."
Let us live this love of the Lord in our hearts,
and let our lives be transformed
into the image of Jesus Christ's character of beauty, love.
Let us ever remain faithful and give up sin
it hurts Jesus to sin.
because we have practically lost the sense of his sacrifice.
we should each day, pour more closely over the word of God,
meditate upon the life of the savior, his death, his resurrection,
and preach Christ crucified, Christ resurrected.
Quite often, when we suffer, we forget how much Jesus also has suffered in our place.
We tend to overlook or forget the great sacrifices he accepted in order to redeem us.
Jesus suffered when he was fasting.
Today, do we fast with him in order to get the victory over our sins?
Our self-indulgence in eating and drinking, and in giving up our ego makes us weak.
Jesus fasted during 40 days,
but very often we hesitate to do it ourselves,
to seek the communion with him in fasting and prayer.
To recieve the victory!
When we have to endure trials,
are we looking to Jesus?
When the fire of the purification overtakes us, we are weak and cry out.
We do not want to suffer with Christ,
and yet it is for us
that our adorable savior died.
He says to us, "I died for you;
I gave my life for you!
Now I live!
I have resurrected from the dead
so that no one shall perish,
but that all may inherit eternal life."
Are we seizing hold of this grace?
This eternal life which is being offered to us?
We have a choice;
we either consider this death of the savior
as an ordinary death and continue to live in sin,
or else we consider that this death
is that of the son of God,
who died for us.
So we can be victorious over every sin!
It was shown to me that today the world is living
as if Jesus died for nothing,
and that there is neither hope nor salvation.
And even among ourselves,
some of us are in doubt
as to the soon return of Jesus;
and do not live the life of the savior,
but live complacently in sin.
Jesus loves us.
He carried his heavy cross,
and he drank the cup of bitterness
and pain in our place.
He tells us,
"Let those who believe in me
take up their cross and follow me." Matthew 16:24.
The Lord Jesus
carried his cross on his back
and held the cup of woe in his hands;
a crown of thorns adorned his brow.
What a terrible reality
inflicted on the son of God!
Jesus places in our cup
a drop of his sufferings.
Just one drop,
that is very little
when compared with
all that he had to drink in our place.
Don't we wish to share his sufferings when we ourselves are unloved?
when we share the insults he suffered?
when we want to remain faithful to him and are persecuted?
Jesus bore all those afflictions.
Some people want to be christians,
but not to suffer with Jesus
when the testing arrives.
Let us take up our cross
and follow him
whatever the weight of that cross,
whether heavy or light,
let us stay faithful to him
and not take our gaze from Jesus.
He is always the same;
he changes not.
By love he remained nailed to that cross,
for you, for me.
Is not that wonderful when we were lost?
Jesus suffered the most ignominious death that exists.
See the grief and suffering of Mary,
his mother,
overcome at the foot of the cross.
She, who had put all her hopes
on this gentle son, so tender,
had to see him die in that fashion -
she who had hoped, like so many others,
that her son would re-establish the kingdom of Israel.
Jesus will bear always
through eternity
the scars of the cross,
so that the entire universe
may understand the immense sacrifice
of his love for human beings.
He said,
"I am the living one,
I am the Eternal, your God."
If we meditate more on his death on the cross,
we will understand how God is love,
and we would draw on that love
in order to perfect our relations
between brothers and sisters.
Jesus told us,
"Love one another as I have loved you."
Let us live this love of the Lord in our hearts,
and let our lives be transformed
into the image of Jesus Christ's character of beauty, love.
Let us ever remain faithful and give up sin
it hurts Jesus to sin.