BeautifullY LovelY & WorthY

Is love a feeling? Is love a sensation of butterflies? Is love "chemistry"?  For some, love is a deep affection for someone. For others, it is an interest or pleasure in something. Love is a decision one makes to give and sacrifice oneself for the benefit of someone or something else. First, let's explore the reasons why we should love. We must love because our Heavenly Father commands us to do so. Indeed, the greatest commandment God ever gave us is to love. "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 12:30-31) In addition, the Word of God makes it clear that if we do not love, we lack value. The Christian life is centered around love and as children of the Most High, we must reflect and manifest love to each other, fraternal love, love of our neighbor. Our Christian faith should not be ab...

<<Two are better than one, because they have good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.>> Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Friendship is the state of mutual trust and support between two or more individuals. God calls us to love one another and He really encourages community. There are many characteristics to identify a God-sent friend, among which: Trust-A friend is someone that can be trusted, that lifts you up when you are down.They are here to sympathize with you, to comfort you. A friend "sticks closer than a brother."(Proverbs 18:24) I do not have a thousand friends. But I know my friends have my back. You need to select your friends carefully. Not because you have known someone for a long time or a particular person claims to be your friend, means that you have to be friends with that person. Spirituality-A good friend is equally yoked to you. You share th...

                                     Beauty is the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit, according to Merriam Webster. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And because Jesus is the way, the TRUTH and the life, beauty, real beauty, TRUE BEAUTY is what Jesus perceives as beautiful. Some people (believers or unbelievers) believe that Jesus perceived everything as beautiful and thus they feel confused or discouraged as to their own individual beauty. 1 Peter 3:3-4 says that <<Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be  THAT OF YOUR INNER SELF, the unfading beauty of a GENTLE AND QUIET SPIRIT  WHICH IS OF GREAT WORTH IN GOD'S SIGHT.>> 1. Beauty is a quiet and a gent...

<< This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." >> Jeremiah 29: 10-11 a) Sufferings precede blessings   For God's decrees to manifest, it is necessary to develop patience , endurance and maturity . Would a mother give a check of a hundred thousand dollars to her child? Absolutely not! The immature child would destroy the check or would fill himself up with all kinds of candies. His lack of knowledge would lead him to disqualify the value of this precious gift and wipe it out. To be made worthy of his mother's gift, the child must mature and develop his intellect and view of the world. Once his line of vision has been enlarged, and after being fashioned by the Potter through spir...

<< Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." >> (Matthew 19:14)       Children are defined, according to Thesaurus as  1) sons or daughters, babies or infants, people regarded as conditioned, or marked by given circumstances. 2) Immature people, or people who have little or no experience in particular areas.            Children, in the world, are considered as unimportant, uninfluential, weak entities, dependent individuals who have no power in themselves. The children in today's society are all people who are marginalized, rejected, misfits, deemed as unimportant, uninfluential, irrelevant, because of their seemingly small stature, their lack of social power or charisma, often judged in a materialistic way, and mostly based on social status, economic class, racial group, appearance, social heritage, culture, original ancestry, financia...

<<The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.>> (Matthew 23: 2-3)         Do we pray for applause, do we praise for recognition?. Do we preach to get "uhm-uhms" or "yesses!" or "Amen!" or "Preach!" Do we preach or serve in our communities or "volunteer" for standing ovations? Do we publish Christian posts, blogs, YouTube videos, sermons, vlogs and so on to satisfy our fleshly desires? Are we seeking popularity? Do we wanna be on stage? Likes? Followers? "clap-claps"? Human praise?        In the book of John, Chapter 12, the leaders of the Jews acted with hypocrisy <<For they loved human praise more than praise from God.>> John 12:43. The bible warns us against hypocrisy that is prevalent in the Christian community, among both leaders and f...

<<For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.>> Matthew 16:25         Life is the gift of being and existing, granted by the God the Universe. It can also be defined as vitality, vigor, presence or existence. When Jesus says in John 14:6 that He is <<the way and the truth and the life>>, He implies that in Him alone can our deepest longings be met. Our spiritual needs, our physical needs, emotional, mental, social desires and hopes can only be satisfied by our Lord Jesus-Christ. No food will ultimately make us happy. No friends will fill our love tank. Nobody, nothing can fill our cups and needs as Jesus. This life is temporary and for this reason must be lived in and for God alone! This life is a preparation stage to our calling to be holy.         If one lives only to store up riches, material things, to get likes and followers, to satisfy their worldl...

<<Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people for they regarded him as a prophet.>> Matthew 14:5      Do we fear God or would we die to please men? Who guides our thought processes and actions? Is our primary motivation to please God or to please men? A fear of human beings is correlated to a lack of faith and belief in our Savior Jesus-Christ Who died for us. The fear of men can be defined as the surrendering to thoughtless actions due to the worry or anxiety that stems from people's opinions. << Without faith, it is impossible to please God.>> Hebrews 11:6      The fear of men leads to depression, because it paralyzes and atrophies muscles, it tightens the body and makes all parts and organs stringent. If not treated, it would ultimately lead to destruction of the body, the Body of Christ specifically. <<The King was distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests who were present, he ordered tha...

<< A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.>> Matthew 13:54-58        People have a tendency to set judgement on their counterparts. It is much easier to "look at the speck in your brother's eye" (Matthew 7:5), to "throw the first stone" (John 8:7), or more commonly to find faults in the person sitting right next to me, while believing ourselves blameless and trustworthy. << And He also told this parable to some people who trusted themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt.>> Luke 18:9       Self-righteousness separates us from God. It is the sin of convincing ourselves to be pure and clean, in contrast to our fellow brothers and sisters. Self-righteousness is a form of idolatry, that ALL BELIEVER should stray away from. Only in God is the authority to judge humanity, not even our own selves. So who are we to to label our brothers and sisters in Chri...

        Partial obedience is not obedience to God. We must fully obey and submit to the guidance and direction of the Lord our Father. <<Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'">> Exodus 33:1        No matter where God sends us, we must go, regardless of our feelings, regardless of our comfort. God loves us and everything He plans for us is GOOD . Who are we to deem our plans more relevant than God's? We must be positioned where our all-knowing Father places us and wants us to be. Because that is where our harvest is abundant and plentiful. That is where our Father surrounds us with the Peace that surpasses all understanding. That is where our portion lies and where we can have an impact for the Kingdom of Heaven!      <<Go up to ...

"The Glory of This Present House Will Be Greater than the Glory of the Former House, " says the Lord Almighty . Haggai 2:9           Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and as temples, they should be treated as such. The Lord declares that He will bless our bodies in a very short moment, even more than they used to be blessed. God not only wants to bless and heal our bodies, but He  can  bless them exceedingly, abundantly, because all the riches and every good thing come from the Lord. The money is His, and the Gold is His.       To get the glory from God, we must first follow Him, secondly honor and glorify  Him, and finally humble ourselves before Him. Because it is in offering our weaknesses to the Lord that His Power intervenes with perfection. Look at King David who was a misfit and a nobody even in his own family; look at Joseph who was sold as a slave by his very brothers, and made second in comm...