No One Loves You More Than I do
No one loves you more than I do. In spanish, Nadie Te Ama Como Yo.
Those were the only lines of the song from the last, farewell song sung by the choir of Basilica de San Carlos, the church where I attended the mass for today's feast of Palm Sunday (Dia de Ramos).
It touched my heart because those were the words I would like to say to God, but surely there are other people even worth saying those words to Him than I. I am not a saint. Surely someone else is.
After the mass, as I walked back home, I realized it was Him, our God, who was talking to me, to us, through those words. No one could ever love us more than God does in the best, most significant and with highest regard to the word LOVE, simply because God himself is Love.
As I read the bible, in my Bible Journey, I am coming to know MORE and MORE about God. I have already known Him, at least that's what I have believed since my childhood.
I have had (since both have gone with God already), parents who were believers of God and had strong faith in Him. My brothers, sisters and I were all brought up in faith. We may not be an "ideal" family in accordance to society standards, but we are a family with strong ties, that's because of our own culture in part. Our country is the third country with the largest Catholic faith.
As I continued walking from the church, I realize how few I know about God, but I am striving to know more. I am. The more I do, the more I realized how interesting God is. He truly is. Speaking from my own experience. The truth, I thought and believed that I have known Him. Then, as I go through and keep on reading about him from the Old Testaments all the way through the New Testament, the more I realized I don't really know God at all.
Through my life, God has been with me. Whether I think, I believe or just imagined His presence, what I have been through in life; which I believe has been nothing to compare to someone else's or anyone else's life, my continuous faith like a child's faith in her own parents have been the stronghold of my fight in the real world.
In my bible journey, I learn about an incredible, magnificent, amazing and Oh! the ONLY ONE who is truly deserving the best of ALL praises, worship and love of anyone, anything, whatever or whoever and whenever, however the consequences can be!
Reading and rereading the testaments of old and even new, putting all your focus, heart and feelings unto it, THE MESSAGE gets into your mind, heart and leads you to actions voluntarily or not.
You'll come to know how great a love can be. You come to realize, no matter how much love you can receive from anyone in your life, "no one but no one" can ever be compared to how much love God can give. It's a wonderful feeling!
If we can believe someone in our life, in our world, can love us sooo much, we can believe not the more, but the most! God can and does love us! We just have TO BELIEVE, as we believe those who we believe on earth that loves us.
With "The Bible Journey", my original plan was to cite some scriptures in my writing and share my experience as I go through reading the bible. But somehow, today's Palm Sunday mass has brought me to something better. To be a witness to God's greatness and love. And share it.
When the choir started to sing the song of peace, asking God for peace, my tears started to drop. I did my best to hold it. Luckily, my safety pandemic mask covers my face. I did not want, ever, to call attention like the Pharisees in the synagogues. I have always preferred a one-on-one contact, private and serious connection with God. But some tears fell inside my mask. I tell this as a proof of how reading and learning more about God can lead one to feel and get connected with Him. And I really had a fight inside me not to burst into tears. Why? Peace. The absence of peace in our world.
Peace these days is walking itself to its ending. Between people, conflict is highly, alarmingly growing and threatening the dying presence of peace, of love. Not to talk about nations themselves, and of course they are made of people. The leaders of powerful and not powerful countries. I dare say, stupidities never stop from expanding.
From the universe to the bottom of the earth, this planet we live in, everything and even little things is disturbed, destroyed and heading to complete destruction. No matter how we ever tried to save it, unless we partnered with God, the creator himself, we would never ever reach nowhere.
Everyone knows, from the most intelligent and experts to the dumbest humans on earth that "something is not right" and "something is going on". But, to our convenience, we all preferred to just wait and see. Do something except believe that God has to be with us to bless our efforts. As hypocrites as we are, being the culprits who destroy the gifts of God by listening to God's Enemy, instead of following His Son's message how to go through, we deny everything in our thoughts, hearts and actions. Who deserves to be forgiven and be saved? No one. BUT... But God.
But God is merciful. Forgiving. Generous. Patient. A god with unfailing love. Not like the "created gods" in all its forms. God is spirit. A holy spirit. We must worship in spirit and in truth.
Jesus is the given name to God's only son when he was born on earth. In Jesus, God is in. The Father and Son is one. With the Holy Spirit in them. God is one. Believe. Worship an only god. Repent sincerely. Learn how.
READ. LEARN. GET RENEWED. GET HOPE. GET GOD.
May the Lord, our God, be with us all in our search for the Word of God in our Bible Journey. Amen.
