Be a Servant, Else Be Damned

God has always been clear on what this life is for and how to live it. You are to be the servant He calls you to be, else be damned to an everlasting life without Him.

If you find these words too harsh, then your heart is hardened to authentic love and you are deaf to His Word. Our modern-day, self-identify, twisted form of love is not true love. Authentic love is what each of us so desperately needs and wants because . . . God, who is Love, created each of us out of love and for love, in His image and likeness. This is ever clear in His Word.

Jesus tells us to love one another as He loves us. The Church teaches us that to love is to will the good of the other. So how does true love translate in today's terms? It doesn't. And that's our biggest problem. 

Unless we align our understanding of love to God's definition, we shall be damned to an eternal life without love, without God. The more we turn inward, the more we demand to define love according to our ways. Thus the further we distance ourselves from God, from love, the closer we find ourselves to eternal damnation.

Today, Original Sin is playing out masterfully, just as the Evil One has orchestrated, and too many in society play along. There is nothing beautiful about self-defined ideology. The vileness of self-identity is at the heart of today's major crisis. It masks itself as self-love, but under that mask is emptiness. Returning to Love, Divine Love, is what we need to resolve every crisis. Authentic love is the Light of Love, the eternal grace of Love Himself. God's love is our redemption. Since we are created in His image and likeness, then we need no mask. We need only to recognize ourselves as God sees us, to love as He loves us.

Love is serving God first and foremost. We are to be His servants at all times, seeking always His will. In seeking, we shall find because God is ever-present, always waiting, with arms wide opened, ready to embrace us. If we abide in Him, we live in Love. If we turn away from Him, we reject Love. So be His servant, else be damned.

Growing Taller in Spiritual Gravity

The song "Feel It All" by Chance Pena was unlikely written about his relationship with God, however, it was written about mine. The key lyrical line is "You're my ceiling and I've grown too tall." So what am I feeling? All of what?

I am feeling all the weight of Goodness. This is for me what spiritual gravity is--the weight of goodness that allows me to stand tall, yet is often unbearable because I cannot stand alone. This is the ceiling for which God calls me to constantly seek. A ceiling that calls me to grow ever taller, always taller. The taller I grow the more I feel all the weight of God's Goodness. His goodness is too much for me. Not because I am unworthy, the exact opposite. God knows I am worthy. I believe that I am worthy because He walks with me, never leaving my side, always holding me up. His Goodness is my cross to bear.

At first thought, I told myself how could this even be? This makes no sense. What a paradox. The spiritual gravity of Goodness is what allows me to stand yet as the gravity increases, I experience a weight too unbearable to stand on my own. This is why grace is required.

Imagine trying to stand on a planet with ten times the gravity of Earth? No one could stand without some kind of assistance such as a technological modification. Well, if I am to bear this weight of spiritual gravity that comes with Heaven, then I must feel it all, all the Goodness of God, and bear the weight of that Cross.

This is my vocation, as what many friends have called me, "the perfect husband." This is the unique name for me of "feeling it all." This is that weight of this expectation, my spiritual gravity, my cross of Goodness that God has given me to carry. The Beauty of this Goodness is that as husband I require my wife. By definition I must have a companion, I require a partner (again), but not just anyone. My unique vocation is a lifelong partnership with another of the other sex who is my complement. This is God's plan for marriage, the reality of the sacramental nature of marital unity, and His plan for my vocation, again.

I have my own cross as well as her cross, and the cross of our family together. The weight of spiritual gravity has quadrupled, and yet I continue to stand taller, taller for her child, taller for her, taller for myself, and taller for God.

Everyday, every hour, every minute, and every moment I feel it all, all of the gravity, and I continue to grow taller thanks be to God.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.