2. Child of My Father Mt 18:2 Flashcards
What are my privileges as a Child of the Father?
No matter what I do, He is ALWAYS my Father. I belong to Him.
I live with Him. I have free access to Him.
He knows me through and through: what I am capable of; what I need.
He feeds me, provides for me, protects me, guides me.
I must know for certain that I am rooted in God’s plan
I am not an afterthought.
He has created me to be His unrepeatable image.
What are my responsibilities as a Child of the Father?
To praise Him, to reverence Him and to serve Him.
To do His will.
To delight Him by being His child.
To represent Him to the world.
To further His reign.
To express my never-ending gratitude to Him.
Jesus made it very clear that His mission is to SINNERS.
In the secret thoughts of my heart . . .
how much reference do I make to God?
Really?
Or is it all about me?
If so, I am dangerously similar to Lucifer.
Nothing shows my ignorance more than
my impatience under trial.
Every cross is meant to serve by bringing out a greater good.
Eve’s sin strikes terror in my soul.
How often my spirit has become muddled and I have entered into dialogue with Satan . . . .and allowed him to twist God’s living and clear word to me . . . Forgetting that I ever heard His word to me . . . Ending up with me doubting God’s infinite and unfailing goodness to me.
How am I hastening the coming of the Kingdom of Love, God’s Kingdom?
Think of how it is when I am with someone I love: how joyfully I receive this person, how easy to forgive, to share, to go the extra mile.
I ask that His Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. How do the angels fulfill His Will?
Joyfully
Swiftly
Trustingly
(How am I cooperating with the graces for which I am asking?)
In heaven, the Father’s governance is absolutely supreme.
Who
or
What governs my life?
Give us this day our daily bread . . .
“our” – not “my”
“daily” – not weekly or annually
I am asking from a trusting heart, that He really will provide everything for my spiritual life, emotional nurture, physical needs, intellectual sustenance; the MERCY I need TODAY, the GRACE I need TODAY.
Lead us not into temptation
Do I take this petition seriously?
OR
Do I really rely on my own power to overcome temptation?
Through Him, With Him, and In Him = our life since the Incarnation.
THIS is the reason why He became man — not to appease the Father, but to show us the depths of His love.
What God, the Father, demanded of His Son was to show us His love.
We are the ones who demanded His death.
