Longing for Jesus?

How many of us yearn for something? whatever it could be - money, status, love, an identity, friends, success...etc.. Well even though somewhere at the back of our (thick) heads, we know Jesus is the answer, sometimes Jesus is just no more than a sticker on our bags, cars or walls that say "Jesus is the answer".

But to be a real believer of that, it takes guts. It takes humbling. It takes everything from us.

We are called to die to ourselves (whatever we knew, held on to, believed..) and to take up the cross. Although it seems unpleasant - but the Cross is really God's way of teaching us and grooming us, so that ultimately, we attain that salvation that He has assured us with. If not, there is no 'journey' in life... no 'mission', no 'path', and we are all walking about our own ways - to where? who knows? not me.. but people don't care.

No one is righteous (Romans 8:10). If we read that before somehow and did not fully understand it, sometimes we just give up the fight saying - since we're sinful, we rather just live our own lives and not be a holy-moly-churchy-goodie-two-shoes person...

But if we REALLY understood that, we'll realise that it is precisely because no one is righteous except Jesus, that we will ultimately NEED JESUS to save us! When we die and go before GOD on the judgement day, what would we say? We need JESUS to save us from our sins.

So we sometimes live our lives under a veil of ignorance. Our eyes are blinded by an invisible cloak. We go to church every Sunday. But there's no real power. There's no real God in our lives. We live a facade. And inside our hearts are in turmoil. We are longing. For more. For God. For truth. That's a sign of the double-standards that we are. It's inevitable... every man has the spirit -- and the flesh.

But so we want to seek ReVival - it's this utopian state where man is liberated from his cloak of ignorance and comes face to face with the true God - in all these, one comes to know the real truth - of God's ultimate love - of Jesus's ultimate sacrifice - of our ultimate purpose IN CHRIST and once you know that, there can be no turning back.

You will KNOW JESUS. Your spirit will come alive. You will know what it means to truly live. We live for God - as his creation, children, friends, beloved, chosen ones. We will know His GRACE and the full meaning of 'grace'.

I write this with utmost sincerity.. for anyone who will be reading this - let's pray for greater revival in the Catholic church.. in our families, our friends, our society.

God Bless,
Sam