You aren't an accident. You weren't mass-produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.
Max Lucado
"You
shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with
your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. You shall not take
vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but
you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 19:17-18
The Revised Standard Version
The Revised Standard Version
12 We don’t yet see
things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t
be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all
then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he
knows us!
1 Corinthians 13:12
The Message (MSG)
Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this
means to save his soul. And the other things on the face of the earth
are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end
for which he is created. From this it follows that man is to use them as
much as they help him on to his end, and ought to rid himself of them
so far as they hinder him as to it. For this it is necessary to make
ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to
the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our
part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches rather than
poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so
in all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for
us to the end for which we are created.
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola
