Wednesday, January 5, 2011

#78: Three symptoms of separation from God


The love between two people is manifested every day through faithfulness. Faithfulness is manifested through communication with messages filled with love.


Two people are thus united by a circle of love that binds them together. Love is the uniting principle and the couple remains faithful to each other through constant exchanges of loving messages.

The communication is made not only with words but with all the ways that people have to express themselves and by the acts done in favor of their loved one. Thus, the words, details and services rendered to the beloved, are ways to communicate love.

The same is with God, but with the difference that love, loyalty and communication are perfect in one direction and flawed in the other. From God to you, love is perfect and its manifestations are insurmountable. From you to God, infidelity, disordered attachments and infrequency in prayer, sometimes even breaking the circle of unity and deforming it.

Sin is like an infidelity in the loving relationship between two people. If God is first in your life, you will not allow sin in your life, nor will you even go near to places where people commonly go to sin.

Today's reflection is based on a passage from the first book of Samuel. The quote is 1 Samuel  4, 12-18. I recommend that you pray before you read ahead to ask the Holy Spirit for enlightment.

Symptoms of a person separated from God.
1. A person separated from God becomes a spectator of the negative changes occurring around him. While the apostle is a leader who looks after the beloved ones of his Beloved, the spectator just sits apathetically.
2. A person separated from God is found away from the road or at best on the roadside. In other words, this person spends much of his time in sinful activities or near those who are engaged in sin. Sin has shaped his body and has impacted on his physical appearance and mood.
3. A person separated from God loses, one by one, the temporal things to which his heart is attached and ends up neglecting his health and life of grace. At the end , his life is empty and his spiritual blindness does not allow him to regain the path to happiness.

These people separated from God need good advice, though often they do not want to listen. If this is the case, then at least pray for them.

Let us ask Holy Mary, Morning Star, to guide our steps towards full union with her Son Jesus Christ. Remember the motto: "To Christ through Mary."

Thank you for making this reflection with me. This is a place where you are appreciated and loved in Jesus Christ. You are the reason for my blog. God bless you abundantly.

I'd love to know what this reflection meant to you. Do not go without leaving your comments, your purposes, whatever you want.

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