Catholic reflections, By Ryan Pinto

 

Topic: Love

Love is the most important thing that we have to cultivate in our lives. Love is the starting of all good things and love help us to welcome God in our lives. There 4 important places where we have to use love always:

1. God

2. Family

3. Enemies

4. Neighbours

 

1. God: - remember dear brothers and sister’s first love, first preference, first glory, praise and thanks to God first always because He is our creator and our only God whom we serve. God has created us for a big purpose and that big purpose is to love Him always by serving and obeying Him faithfully. But we people always sin and always follow the opposite of Gods will and that break the relationship of love between us and God. Relationship with God is always broken because of us, we humans break our relationship with God by committing sin. Now today God is rebuilding the relationship and love with us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for us, for Jesus has given us the answer in the bible in John 3:3 no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born again from above. For this means that Jesus was explaining that without changing our old sinful life into righteous life we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. God loved us so much He said in bible in John 3:16 :- for God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that we may not perish but have eternal life. Therefore we must understand that God’s love has no end, no measure, no time For God is giving us chance every day to change our lives for He loves so much even though we are sinners and are unclean to enter his kingdom still He tries hard to bring us back just like a true Father does for we are His children so we have to act like obedient children and not like enemies.

In ten commandments first commandment gives us the answer how to Love God: love the lord your God with all you heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength for is the greatest and best commandment which we have to follow everyday of our lives. 

 

2. Family: dear brothers and sisters Jesus has given us family to learn good morals, to love one another. For family is given to us as a gift of unity to learn to love God. We have to love our family by obeying one another, speaking politely, and by being always united. For family is a part of training where we have to learn without loving our family and loving others it is impossible. For now a day’s families are not united and are scattered away with their own life and this is not acceptable and pleasing in God’s sight for love has to be united and not to bring disorder in us.

3. enemies : this is the important thing that we as humble Christians have to follow for this is a very difficult part therefore it is impossible to love our enemies without help of God.

Jesus showed us how to love the enemies by crying to the Father “ Father forgive them they do not know what they are doing”.

This what we have to cultivate dear brothers and sisters no matter how much our enemies cause us problem and suffering we should show love to them like how Jesus did on the cross we have to love our enemies by asking God forgiveness on their life for they still do not know the truth of the kingdom of God.

 

4. Neighbors: we have to love our neighbor as how we love our self. We have to show and act on it to our neighbor. God has given us neighbor to be united with them as a family. God will bless us abundantly if we follow his commandments and follow it whole heartedly.

Love is the key enter heaven. For without love it is difficult to start good things in our own, let us all do this for Christ and follow him whole heartedly with love for everyone. Love is key and the way to find Jesus. Amen.