JOURNEY WITH MARY (Epi. 5) - Dedicated & Consecrated to God

The purpose of these podcasts is to actualize objective salvation – accepting, personalizing and owning  what God has done for us through His Son, Jesus Christ. I am very glad I’m also part of this journey with you. It’s not for merely listening, rather for action. To take maximum advantage and use of these episodes, do use – the Holy Bible, Diary and a pen Do spend a little more time in prayer! This 5th Episode is “Dedicated to God – consecration” – choosing God above everyone and everything else God made us for Himself We can find our purpose and meaning only in our exclusive relation with God. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” - Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. To love God is life for us: Love Him with the entire being – with an undivided heart, mind, soul Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your might.” Matthew 22:34-38: 34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “‘You shall LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. - Exclusive relationship with God – God desires from EVERYONE - Matthew 10:27-29 “Whoever loves father or mother MORE THAN me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter MORE THAN me is not worthy of me; 38 and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” Top priority to God Luke 14:26-27 “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and EVEN LIFE ITSELF, cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” - The First Commandment – to love God The cost of discipleship by BONHOEFFER - Possible only in proposition to the level of Grace in one’s life Philippians 3:7-9 “Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.” God or Nothing by Robert Cardinal Sarah Example of Mary – Joseph - Handmaid – slave girl of the Lord - Jesus – became a slave Kindly visit the blog for the questions and quotes for reflection : https://frcgeorgemclaret.blogspot.com/2020/11/journey-with-mary-epi-5-dedicated.html