C Write a paragraph of about ten lines on the following topic:
"God made me to Know Him, to love Him, and serve Him."
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Answer:
To Know Him, To Love Him , To Serve him
Dear Friends,
If you remember the old Baltimore Catechism taught: “God made us to know him, love and serve him…” Hence, we first must know God in order to love Him. For how can we love that which we do not know? Hence, we read the scriptures and study the teachings of our Faith. But how do we love God? For Israel this was summed up in the commandment, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one God, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your strength and with all your soul and with all your might.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) Jesus of course added to this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” So this love of God includes love of neighbor and love of self. Authentic love then necessarily has these three objects. So in a sense when we fail to love our self or our neighbor our love of God falls short.
So then who is this God that we love? The God that is the object of our love has revealed Himself as Father. For Israel this included the Creator and the Lord of history who was guiding His children each step of the way. Jesus furthered this notion of Father-God by inviting us to call God: Abba. This is one of the few Aramaic words retained by the Greek writers of the New Testament. It is a word that children use to address their earthly fathers, similar to our English usage of the title Dad or Daddy. So for us as Christians the God that we lo a word that children use to address their earthly fathers, similar to our English usage of the title Dad or Daddy. So for us as Christians the God that we love is actually Daddy-God.
Now this works fine if your image of a father is one of a loving, kind provider. Our first image of father comes from our earthly fathers. This forms in a sense the template from which we develop our ideas of a Father- God. If our idea of father is distorted by experience or perception then we usually will have a hard time with the idea of God. For those who find themselves struggling here it is critical that they begin to deal with their own father issues. Once we have worked this issue through then we will be free and open to the revelation of the Daddy-God of Jesus.
Another challenge we must overcome in trying to love God is the problem of love of self. Too often we do not know what this means. We mistake healthy self-love for egotism and pride and so do not love our self and therefore cannot authentically love God or neighbor. People will often tell me all the good things they are doing or have done and I realize they are trying to love themselves. Except they do not. There are old tapes running in their heads that tell them no matter how much good they have done they are not really lovable. The extreme end of this is suicide. But most do not get there. Rather they kill themselves slowly with self-hate.
Hello everyone, I am Kiara. I used to be an atheist but now I am a full devotee of God. I used to feel that prayers are done just to show it off to others that look like I pray to God. But now I don't feel it in that way I realized the existence of god when I received my 10th board results. I used to feel that I was going to fail the exams but still I got 89%. I did pray to God before seeing my result and the result was extremely astonishing. After that, I encountered many instances where I believe in God and God helped me in solving those problems. Now after so many years I have finally realized that god is the one which you have to understand and that can only be done by reading the holy books because that's how we can hear what God wants to tell us. These books consist of the words of God if anyone wants to understand God then it is the best way to know about the power replay talking to them or to find solutions to our life problems.
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