Wig’s Word of God Today 10-21-2010
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is My anguish until it is accomplished! Luke 12:50
Ephesians 3:14-21, Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 & Luke 12:49-53
Before I became a Montessori Teacher I went for a job interview at a Catholic School for a third grade teacher position and during the my observed lesson the Principal who was a Nun was watching me teach, I talked about the importance of prayer in all of our lives and asked the children if they prayed when they got up, before each meal during the day, over tough daily decisions and before they go to bed. Getting down on my knees in front of the class clasping my hands together I prayed my prayer before going to bed as an example. Paul tells us how he gets down on his knees to pray before the Father explaining his hope for all is “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Teach your children to pray on their knees giving them a guide to give all thanks and glory to God the Father for His Son’s Salvation of the world. Teach yourselves to pray on your knees always being thankful for all you have for you too are afforded Eternal Salvation.
Christ was well aware of the day and hour of His impeding death. How great His anguish was as He approached the days of His Crucifixion. Many around were in dismay He could be speaking of His Death as a need for all mankind. The Apostles did not understand why His statement of division among families was foretold by Him because their faith had not been baptized by the Holy Spirit. The division of families sometimes can’t be avoided because no matter what you do, their desire to understand what a belief in Christ Jesus will provide them is still not accepted by many today. Our country experiences this everyday where the joy of selfish acts of sin is more important than giving thanks to God the Father for all our country has and will be given. No matter what division you experience by loving your love of Christ, the Truth you carry in your soul will bring you Everlasting Life. A surrender to this love is more important than any other love or desires you might have. Give every moment to Him and you too will find peace among division.
And so we pray: Heavenly Father, I pray today for those who have not yet found Your Will to be their comfort and strength each day. On my knees I praise Your Name and ask You to forgive those who have not yet found Your Truth. Be it families or friends, my love of Your Son may cause division and I accept this as necessary for my Salvation. May I be an example that brings Unity instead of separation. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
God Bless,
Cruz-Wig
Romans 8:28
Not Worried of Division
Seek to kneel
Praising His Name
Seek to share
Life Everlasting I dare
Gain power by His Spirit
In your heart He will dwell
Accomplish more in admission
Sins relinquished death spell
Power to imagine
Truth at all cost
Glory in His Church
Knowledge never to scoff
Goodness of God is around us
All the earth can see and feel
Repent of ugliness and division
Eternal Life you will relish to reel
Be not worried of division
His love may confuse some
Your surrender always giving
A life of Truth in the Son
© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins October 21, 2010 @ 5:43 AM
Catholic believe baptism is necessary.
VATICAN II declared this in #7 of it’s decree Ad Gentes:
“Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church’s preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself “by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door. Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it.” (Dogmatic constitution by Vatican II: Lumen Gentium 14) Therefore though God in ways known to Himself can lead those inculpably ignorant of the Gospel to find that faith without which it is impossible to please Him (Heb. 11:6), yet a necessity lies upon the Church (1 Cor. 9:16), and at the same time a sacred duty, to preach the Gospel. And hence missionary activity today as always retains its power and necessity.”