Doing "GOOD" and "RIGHT" is the True Sacrifice!

I notice this in alot of people too. They claim to be high and mighty and pretend to worship the lord, but in fact, they are hypocrites when it comes right down to is and they do things the lord would not approve of.

okay third time. this reminds me of a story I read of a wealthy lady who professed to be a real christian always going to church and doing what Christ told her to do.she was all alone and wishing /Christ would appear so she could share all the good she had done. while she was reading her bible a man in shabby clothes came to her door. He asked for a little money to get his pregnant wife to the hospital,. He had run ou t of gas for his car. She sent him away telling him to get a job and went b ack to reading her bible.again a boy of fifteen knocked on her door maam can I mow your lawn as I do need money for school I only charge you five dollars. she yelled go away ask you mother for moneyl I am busy reading the bible its sabbath. so he went away. Now a third knock on the door and her married dau ghter was there. Mom please help me I need forty dollars to fix my car and I am out of money please? I will pay you back. she got a lecture dont ask me for money save your money now gol away. Her daughter left in tears muttering angrily to herself. the woman was so angry she was about to swear then she prayed instead. A man appeare in white a golden light around him. It was indeed c hrist. she asked him why when she had prayed all after noon he never came tol her. He was very grave. He said"Oh but i did come to you. three times I knocked on your door. three times you sent me away. dear child have ou learned from this? She was now in tears. remember he said that that you do for the least of them you do also for me.

I agree. Just last Holy Week everyone from my neighbors to relatives preparing starting from Palm Sunday up to Easter Sunday. Some of had a walk to Antipolo. They keep on insisting our sins are washed when we sacrifice. Some says you need to confess your sin to the priest first before your sin can be washed and it gives me migraine to whom I will believe in. So what happened if your sin are washed, that got me thinking. ARe they sure that they will never make a sin again? If you ask me, i am not a hypocrite promising to God that this will be my last sin. There are sins that are controllable, but there are situation where you need to lie, so that is a sin again, isn't it? I just accepted the fact that I am only human, but I believe in God, the father almighty, Jesus Christ his son and I confess and pray to them alone. I talk to them as always and I need too when there are times that my illness are getting severe and all that. For me, i do not have to do the rituals they are doing as those are just part of what they believe in and what Spanish people from old lifes influenced us. I do my thing for the rest of my life.

You are absolutely correct.

I have never been a big fan of hypocritic piety. I have stopped equating church-going to being good. This is not to say that I agree with the opposite thesis. I just think that goodness is a much more complicated set of permutations which only God can solve. I agree with one of the posts in this discussion that doing good does not automatically mean being good. It's like the relationship status in Facebook - it's complicated. Having said that, my family has always observed the Lenten tradition and shun the beach during these days. Personally, I observe the traditions mostly because this is also bonding time for my family. When I have a project, I tend to zone them out during weekdays. Sundays and holidays are the only time that I enjoy their company. For me its God's way of giving me the opportunity to bond with them.

I understand your point here about doing right and etc. however I do have concern where this post is leading. It's giving people the impression that, pleasing God is a matter of doing good things - that's not necessarily truth. Reason being, you can DO good all you want, but it's about BEING good that really matters. People DO good things all the time...even a rapist will help and old lady across the street. The other concern I have is, who sets the standards for what is GOOD and what is NOT? If you say that you're doing good, but I don't agree with your goodness, isn't your goodness useless? Also, if I'm all wrapped in doing good - who do I adhere to? I have no need of spiritual or moral authority because I'm my own goodness...isn't that a strain of idolatry? I can do whatever I want to because I'm good? So, on one hand, I totally agree with what you're saying about we need to do GOOD things, that's very important, however, without a true relationship with God, we're just performing, and not living...just a thought.

Unfortunately, hypocrisy often comes into the picture. Even the most sincere Christians may fall into that pattern. True Christianity will show love and sacrifice lived out in our daily lives. Of course, nothing we do would matter if Jesus Christ had not given the ultimate sacrifice.

That is true! what is the sense of doing those religious routines if they can't value in real life situation. I know many people that are totally like that. It couldn't be really easy to do GOOD things with sincerity that is something coming from a person's heart if the power of money is his/her greatest temptation which is the root of evil. I mean I know people who are into religious blah blah organization and whatsoever but then when it is about money that is how you would see their true colors. I myself would admit that it is not easy to be humble that I am totally stressed to the environment that I am influenced with in the sense that I can't make my own strategy for doing good. I mean it is just easy to tell me to be humble but then I can't make it which is hard time for me to learn.

hello LK, I agreed with you no offense meant but now a days the ALAY-LAKAD is one way of sacrifice but some people just make this as an excuse to go swimming, drinking session with friends and to be together with their boyfriend/girlfriend (teeners) the real essence was not there anymore. happy mylotting