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Halleluiah! Praise the Lord! Lord of Hope! Our Redeemer! God of all Wisdom! The Most Miraculous God! The Healer! Creator of Heaven & Earth! These are the utterances of the Evangelists, Preachers, Prayer Leaders.
Foolish! It's nothing but a drama! These how I described them. I did not know why it had been irritating me when I could hear those praises on TV & over the radio. The more that it could stir an irritation when it is accompanied by yelling & burst of cries. In short, I did not appreciate those kinds!
But you know what? God showed me the way choosing the "foolishness of men" to shame my arrogance. The Divine Mercy has opened the door for my appreciation when one day it became a natural feeling of joy when he placed me on the actual where my emotion was really uncontrollably high. At that impulse, I could not figure out what sort of miracle is it that softened my heart. The only thing I could remember was I was extremely joyful for God because of the great uproar that seemingly shook the area because of the praises. I was thinking that maybe God was very happy because of the luxurious praises.
Until then, I've drawn up the true appreciation & spirit on the holiness of praises taking it as an opportunity as one of the most luxurious communion w/ God. Like the evangelist, preachers, prayers leaders, I don't mind whether I'll be called foolish or overreacting.
Believe me, even at the house before the prayer begins, there are times that raising my hands becomes spontaneous because of the abounding gratitude for that grace that multiplied back then up to this time. I just don't know if I'm offending God once I take my hands off when somebody would open the door while I'm on a lotus position. I'm preventing them not to call me crazy although I'm really crazy, not for anything else but for the Lord, because of the immeasurable grace & mercy that I've been receiving & enjoying w/ my family since the beginning w/c unnoticeably failed to identify because of spiritual blindness; up to this time of a wonderful life of perseverance & endurance despite my present unemployment.
Luke 1:67-79 Then Zechariah his father, filled w/ the Holy Spirit, prophesied saying: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for He has visited & brought redemption to His people. He has raised up a horn for our salvation w/in the house of David His servants even as He promised through the mouth of His holy prophets from of old; salvation from our enemies & from the hand of all who hate us, to show mercy to our fathers & to be mindful of His holy covenant & of the oath He swore to Abraham our father, & to grant us that, rescued from the hand of enemies, w/o fear we might worship Him in holiness & righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways, to give His people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God by w/c the daybreak from on high will visit us to shine on those who sit on darkness & death's shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.
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