A ransom for many
Let us renew our closeness to God. Let us build the fire that makes us glow in the Holy Ghost. We should be wet with the Spirit and share the flame to others. We need to influence them with the feeling of how beautiful it is to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Our mission is to encourage them to seek the same.
We need to grow while treasuring the flame in our hearts. We need to explore places where there are souls hungry for the word of God. Even though they are not spiritual, it is our duty to make them aware that they too need to be saved. Just like us, they need to be filled and be baptized, as they also need to repent.
Our work is to offer them guidance and allow them to experience the wonder of being filled with the Holy Ghost. They too need to praise and adore God, exalt him, and glorify him as they plead while in tears. They too need to glow in the luster of the Spirit, experience stammering, and even the speaking in tongues.
They need to receive the mark of Jesus being circumcised in the heart, and be like the Gentiles receiving favor from God. They need not be the dogs that are contented with the crumbs under the table or the leftover of the grace of God. They too need to receive the covenant of God while circumcised in the heart.
As we experience great faith, we need to receive answers to our prayers as we can say to a mountain to move and be thrown into the sea, not in the literal sense but as an example of great faith. We need to search the scriptures as we look into our hearts and ask ourselves if our first love remains, just as we are on fire when we’re new in God.
Let us be witnesses to others having a burden for the salvation of souls. Let us not forget that once we’re also lost and in the dark, and someone offered us help. We discovered: we can have a closer relationship with the Master, and find the place where he rests. There are those, who, like us, are scarred people once found in the pit of sin.
With our experience as we grow in the Spirit and in the scriptures, we too can open the eyes of those spiritually blind. We can lead them too to see how wonderful God can interfere in their lives. His divine intervention can help them heed in the better way, where they can drink of the fountains in the valleys and the springs of water.
We need to be generous of our time and our presence to others, and help them be awakened to the truth especially to one: that God is manifest in the flesh. We need to pray to God that their understanding be opened, and lead them too to the Emmaus explaining and expounding to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Jesus.
We need to explain to them that Christ have not been killed if the princes of this world knew about his nature as God and his kingdom in heaven. But as we can see, Christ also became a ransom for many and saved us from mortal sin by offering his life in the cross. We ought to be aware that the body was offered while God is the Spirit above.
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Jojo
I. Nartatez
