The secret of the kingdom of God is not speaking, it is to live; It is not just to know God, it is to know His will and make every effort to put it into practice.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 7: 21).
We must pay close attention to what the Lord tells us, because we all cry out the name of God, proclaim, speak and preach in his name. And often we do wonderful preaching about of the Lord and even are proud to live life in his name.
However, the Word of God today calls us to care quite seriously, “Not everyone who says, ‘Lord, Lord’, has a guaranteed a place in the Kingdom of God, but he who does the will of God! “(Matthew 7: 21). The secret of the kingdom of God is not speaking, it is to live; It is not just to know God, but to know His will and make every effort to put it into practice.
Let me say, a “card-carrying religion” saves no one! Church titles even less! Being a friend of this or that preacher, priest and pastor does not guarantee us anything; on the contrary, all this only increases our responsibility.
This is a reminder to all of us that we have a role in God’s house. In this case, our liability is much higher because we know and often do not practice, we ignore and we pretend that we do not know or do not strive enough to put into practice the will of God.
We need a firm foundation, because in this life we will have troubles from all sides. From above may come the rains; from the side winds; rising up from below the floods, but the foundation is not ourselves, not our pride and our arrogance, but our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we survived, we support and we left with life of tribulations we went through in life.
This requires the application to die for you so that God may be all in us, the application of saying with Saint Paul: “I live, no longer I; but Christ who lives in me “(Galatians 2:20). An application to overcome the hypocrisy, because the greatest evil for a religious person is not live what you preach, not to put into practice what you teach and live in a contradictory manner to what you believe.
It often takes silence for us to rethink our lives and look at ourselves and realize in what area we need to improve, we need to apply ourselves better and how we escaped from grace and God’s will!
God bless you!
Father Roger Araujo
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