Friday, July 11, 2008
Do not follow your lust and desires of the flesh that is in battle with the Spirit of God. You must crucify your desires and live a Spiritual life without sex or masturbation. If you do not, you go against God and will go to hell.
But if you take pleasure in committing even a slight sin, which you know to be sin, and you do so trusting to your own abstinence and presuming on grace, without doing penance and reparation for it, know that it can become a mortal sin. Accordingly, if some sinful pleasure of any kind comes into your mind, you should right away think about where it is heading and repent. After human nature was weakened, sin has frequently arisen out of human infirmity. There is no one who does not sin at least venially, but God has in his mercy given mankind the remedy of feeling sorrow for each sin as well as anxiety about not having made sufficient reparation for the sins for which one has made reparation.
However, if a soul’s will is not corrected, an end without end then confines that soul. What happens is that the devil, knowing that each person will be judged according to his conscience and intention, labours mightily at the end of life to distract the soul and turn it away from rectitude of intention, and God allows it to happen, since the soul refused to remain vigilant when it ought to have?
So, in God’s judgment it is not how people end their lives or their horrible death that leads to their reward or condemnation, but their intention and will. The case is similar concerning these two bishops. One of them suffered more painfully and died a more terrible death. This reduced his punishment, although it did not gain him the glory, because he did not suffer with a right intention. The other bishop died in glory, but this was due to my hidden justice and did not gain an eternal reward for him, because he did not rectify his intention while he was alive.
--God Is Good--
7/11/2008 08:13:00 PM
