June 7, 2011Dear Family of Mary! Dear children! As I call you to prayer for those who have not come to know the love of God, if you were to look into your hearts you would comprehend that I am speaking about many of you. With an open heart, sincerely ask yourselves if you want the Living God or do you want to eliminate Him and live as you want. Look around you, my children, and see where the world is going, the world that thinks of doing everything without the Father, and which wanders in the darkness of temptation. I am offering to you the light of the Truth and the Holy Spirit. According to God's plan I am with you to help you to have my Son, His Cross and Resurrection, triumph in your hearts. As a mother, I desire and pray for your unity with my Son and His works. I am with you; you decide. Thank you.
(June 2, 2011)
"With an open heart, sincerely ask yourselves if you want the Living God or do you want to eliminate Him and live as you want." I believe this is a question we should ask ourselves every day. It is the question that was set before Adam and Eve in the garden. In Genesis, Chapter 2, the Lord created Adam out of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into him. Then the Lord planted a Garden in Eden full of every good plant and tree. God gave this beautiful garden to Adam with only one restriction. He told Adam
"but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die" (v. 17). Ok. God gave Adam free reign in Eden, except for one thing, the knowledge of good and evil. That knowledge was reserved for the Creator, not the creature.
Along came Satan, the serpent. In his twisty way, he convinced Eve that God was lying to her, that she would not die if she ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He made her suspicious that God was holding something back from her, and that she could become
"like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:5). All she had to do was eat the forbidden fruit.
Adam and Eve were faced with a choice. Did they want to be like God by grasping for God's power, and in effect did they want to eliminate God and live as they wanted, deciding good and evil themselves? Or did they want to stay in union with the Living God Himself, by accepting His terms, His designs for their lives? They were choosing between being creatures or being their own creators. In one moment, they chose to put themselves in God's place, and they fell.
Every day we run into the same question. We can choose to live as if God does not exist and we are our own creators. Or we can live as children of God, creatures of His love, who have been given a call to live out of our created-ness, to follow Him, to listen to Him and to accept His plan for our lives. Do we want to eliminate God? Do we think we can create our own reality, our own destiny, our own future? Of course we cannot. But the enemy deludes us into thinking so in so many ways.
As Our Lady says, "
Look around you, my children, and see where the world is going, the world that thinks of doing everything without the Father, and which wanders in the darkness of temptation." The lies of the enemy have not changed in all these years. He is still offering us a foolish dream, filled with pride and lust, greed and envy. He tempts us to be suspicious of God's love so that we will forget about God and live only in this temporary world, making ourselves little gods. But a world full of fallen "gods" is not a very nice place. It is every man for himself in such a world, and it just gets darker and darker. Every day we face this choice, this decision. Will we repeat the fall of Adam and Eve, or will we follow Jesus to the Kingdom of the Father, where we can live as His children, in the joy of having been created by such a loving God?
Once we see the question for what it really is through the saving love of Jesus and the light of His Holy Spirit, we can only choose one thing, the Living God, our Father.
In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2011
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