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Hesed we Shalom my brothers and sisters in Christ..what are the meaning of our existence?human beings or man have been 'constructed' by the Lord God our Creator. What kind of the first almsgiving that we know? Solemnly, nothing compare to the almsgiving given by the Lord..'In the beginning' as the Word is existed and then made flesh in Christ Jesus,our Lord our Saviour..in this retrospective, let us see more deeper into the very first beginning of our creation.
Blessed be God
God said 'Let us make men in our image, to our likeness...'(Gen 1:26a).'So God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.(Gen 1:27)...Then YHWH God formed Man, dust drawn from the clay, and breathed into his nostrils a breath of life and Man became alive with breath.(Gen 2:7)
Blessed be God
It is out of my ethics code to use and present the Word of God so plainly like the above..For in my personal view that neither any words that worthy to be with His Word alone.So, I am so lowered to put the benediction before and after His Word so that my words did not 'pollute' the sanctity of His Word. Sorry for my weakness on this for I am only the servant's children of God. As we enlightened by His Word that the Lord 'said','created','formed' and 'breathed'. In my previous discussion entitled Lent 2010(prayers)'He is really exist and He is even heard and saw as 'Spoken','Laugh' and 'Act'(and more than this)'..-passages from my previous discussion. I would like all of us try to understand that because all of the very first actions by the Lord that He all ready gave us His 'almsgiving' to us. perhaps the term on this not accurately to describe His action in tiny conclusion as 'almsgiving', but the word 'almsgiving' giving us opportunity to discover a fraction of God's way of salvation.
When God 'said',He make a plan in us. Why not starting from now especially in this Lent season that we make a plan or simply say it as a 'wish'. We should not be hesitate and did not need to swear and promise to fullfil our plan to do almsgiving, for from our simple plan that God will directs us without our knowing. Trust in Him for after He has planned that we are made. Is it a little bit paradoxical to what we try to convey from His plan compare to us?. Often that we did something that contrary to our own plan. But didn't we wondered by things that we have plan originally? Here we come, that in speaking of plan that we try to start something..So it works also for our wishy-washy thought to start do almsgiving..
When God 'created' that He loved us first even before we love Him..something indirectly indicates that whenever a person who are 'born Christian or Catholics' doubted that why he or she need to love God and their Christian life and baptised when they are still young or a baby. The problem did not laid on our parents or the Church but it is from ourselves. Why I am saying this? You all could see by our own that God's salvation from 'said' now 'created' in us in our Baptism. when God 'recreate' or 'reborn' us again in Baptism that we are become in place where we are 'created'. We could constantly stay in our own faith or leave, for God also install inside us our free will. But before we make any conclusion that we should reflect on our Baptismal promises every Triduum esp. Easter Vigil, that we are still His same creation that almost the same as the situation He 'created' us. So, the second hint for us today is 'created'.. From our planning, now we are able to make our almsgiving a reality.
When God 'formed' us..we could imagine that how we are formed inside our mother's womb.. our cells formed through various process and in this state that we could say that we are now 'filled'. He installed in us as I have share that He also put inside us our free will. But it is just that? No, of course for He installed or filled many things. Even the things that yet to be discovered by us.Now is the turn for us to fill also what we have plan and make in our path to do almsgiving.
When God 'breathed'..to whom He 'breathed'? To us.. yes it is. Amen to that. He gave 'alms' clearly right now..but please be noticed that before we think that when He 'breathed' into us that He started gives 'alms' to us, He is already gave us 3 types of large categories of 'alms' to us. So, the Scriptures told us about His saving work by His doing in 'alms' He has gave to us.
i hope that this sharing about how does God loved us so much. He gave us first before we gave to Him and our family, friends and any people around us...
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