Grace, Love, and Holy Repentance - Key ingredients to a lasting world peace
This entry was posted on 10/1/2006 2:40 AM and is filed under World Affairs, Peace, Formula for Peace, Religious Wars.
Grace, Love, and Holy Repentance
Key Ingredients to a Lasting World Peace...
Since the fall of Adam and Eve, the world has been at war. The war has not abated, because the world is populated by souls that are in a state of unrest and turmoil. The lack of peace is caused by a knowledge of the fact that all persons who can rightfully with perfect justice be convicted of sin, are condemned to eternal perdition in the Lake of Fire.
The problem is that we avoid this condemnation by pursuing hatred, killing, and violence of passions and vices - the very thing that brings about our death - to the exclusion of doing what our Lord told us...
1. Love the Lord your G-d with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your body, and all of your soul.
and
2. Love your neighbor as with the same care that you love yourself and take care to preserve your own life.
It is interesting to note that if all of humankind were to follow the above two items assiduously and perfectly, then we could actually achieve world peace.
But, the sad fact is that we don't currently do this...yet, we have it in our power to perform a metanoia (change of mind, a change of direction) so that we can bring about a lasting world peace. However, that peace is not available to those souls who have a fearful dread of their ultimate condemnation by a Righteous Judge who is the Word of G-d.
Yes, there really is a Book of Life. Is your name written down in it???
If it is not, all you need to do is to contact your nearest Orthodox Priest, and be Baptized in the Holy Faith in Christ Jesus (the Author of the Formula for World Peace and the Author of Life itself, for He created you, me, and everyone, everything else around us.) Holy Scripture tells us that men and women love darkness more than the Light, so that their deeds will not be uncovered. Yet, from G-d and us, there is no darkness to cover our sin, and our guilt resulting from our sins and rebellion against our G-d. But G-d Loves us and sent His Only Begotten Son to give us all freedom from guilt and new Life in a body that houses the Holy Spirit of G-d, thus we are guided into remission of sins and assured of Eternal life in paradise with the Word of G-d. Now all souls who possess this Life-giving Faith in Christ Jesus have a peace that passes all understanding that permeates from their very inner heart. Have you ever experienced that kind of peace? It is the prerequisite to spreading peace and love to our neighbor without judgment.
Are we the children of wrath???? or the children of G-d ???? This is the kind of idea that needs viral marketing, so that we can change our world into a better place to live.
Our Lord commanded us to pray thusly:
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Instead of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, why don't we, knowing that we ourselves are equally guilty of past transgressions against our Lord and our neighbor(s), stop hating, stop killing, stop violating G-d's commandments, and pursue Light, Holy Wisdom, and Life! What a revolutionary thought? What right have we to be angry with our neighbor when we have a log in our own eye?? Why don't we think?
Our Lord is knocking....is anyone listening???? Open the door to our Lord, so He can sup with us.
Grace and Peace be with you all in Christ Jesus.
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