Short story: A sermon on our relationship with God

Tweet

The Reverend Freddy Pasmore, was giving his Sunday sermon to his parishioners. His topic was our closeness to God. Here is how he phrased his message: "Whenever we distance ourselves from God, we should try to return to him." "Some thoughtless actions of ours, will distance us from God, in that we have then moved away from our living only from God's love, and are then living from our own selfish motives instead." "Negative behaviours, thoughtless thoughts, bad habits, will usually tie us up in themselves, and when we are so strung up, we become unresponsive to God, but only responsive to these false motivators instead." "We should push ourselves to move past these blockages, and challenge ourselves to live higher lives, love-based lives for God." "God can help us to change negative situations around into something that is positively alive in his love." "We can learn from adversity, which can help us to see into the hidden truths, behind all such adversity, and to see the revealed good, that we can gain from our trials." "Try to understand that goodness only lives in you, when you live within it, within God." "Your own kind of goodness, without God in it, does not cut it as real goodness, but only as a shadow of what it can be, if it is coming in you from God." "Emptiness grows only from itself, and never from fullness, which is unemptiable, and so stay full of love to never feel empty of it." "The only use of emptiness is to empty yourself of all non-love attributes in you." "Reaching past life into love involves you going through God, and not just through life, which (life) on its own can never love fully, or strongly enough, for that love to be real love as from God, or similar love to God's love." "So, remember the great commandment, and try to live from it, just as much as you can do so." "Jesus replied: ’Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’" "'This is the first and greatest commandment.'" "'And the second is like it: "‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’" "These well-known verses, come from Saint Mathew's gospel, chapter 22, verses 37 to 39." "I will finish my talk for today right there then." And with that, his sermon was completed, until next week's sermon will come along. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We should live our lives as close to God as we can do so.