(Deeptrans)
There are many and very powerful reasons that move us to love God: because He brought us out of nothing and He himself governs us, provides us with the things necessary for life and sustenance...6. Furthermore, this debt we owe Him for the mere fact of our existence was increased by raising us to the order of grace and redeeming us from the power of sin through the Death and Passion of His Only Son and the countless benefits and gifts we constantly receive from Him: the dignity of being His children and temples of the Holy Spirit... It would be a tremendous ingratitude, if we did not thank Him for what He has given us. Moreover," says St. Thomas, "it would be as if we were making another God for ourselves, as when the children of Israel, coming out of Egypt, made themselves an idol.
True love-human love, and in an eminent way love for God-always ennobles and enriches man, making him a little more like his Creator.
The personal history of each man shows how dignity and happiness, even human happiness, are achieved on the path of love for God, never outside of it; and when the ultimate reason for a life is encapsulated in any other motive, one is in danger of falling under the dominion of one's own passions. It has been truly said that "the road to hell is already hell"; those words of the Prophet Jeremiah are fulfilled to those who were dazzled by the idols of the neighboring nations: the gods of others," said the Prophet, "will not give you rest.
To cease to love God is to enter a path in which one cession calls for another, for he who offends the Lord "does not stop at one sin, but is driven to consent in others: he who commits a slave sin is of sin" (Jn 8:34). Therefore it is not easy to get out of it, as St. Gregory said: "sin that is not removed by penance, by its very weight drags other sins". Love for God leads us to detest sin, to turn away-with the help of his grace, with the ascetic struggle-from any occasion in which there may be an offense against God, and to do penance for the faults and sins of our past life.
We should frequently make positive acts of love and adoration of our Lord, filling with content each genuflection-sign of adoration-before the tabernacle, or perhaps repeating the words Adoro Te Devote, or those we say when we recite the Gloria at Holy Mass: We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks.
The love of God is lacking when it is not worshipped properly, when it is not prayed or is prayed badly, in voluntary doubts against the faith, in reading books, newspapers or magazines that attack the faith or morals, in giving credit to superstitions or doctrines - even if they are presented as scientific - that are opposed to the faith, both of which are the fruit of ignorance; by exposing themselves or their children, those in their care, to influences harmful to faith or morals; by distrusting God, his power or his goodness. .. "And this is the index for the soul to know clearly whether it loves God or not, with pure love. If it loves him, its heart will not be centered on itself, nor will it be attentive to its tastes and convenience. It will dedicate itself to seeking the honor and glory of God and to giving Him pleasure. The more she has a heart for herself, the less she has a heart for God. "We want to have our hearts set on the Lord and on the people and tasks we do for Him and with Him.
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