Are You Trying Go It Alone?

My children are mine. With my wife I shave brought them into this world. I feed them, provide drink, clothing, shelter and protection. When they are sick I do all I can to get them the comfort and care that they need. I love them so much that I would sacrifice my own life for them. I create house rules for them to follow, not to control them, but rather to help ensure that they grow safe and righteous so that when they leave me care they will be safe. God is the same way. He created you in his same likeness. He created a world that would provide all you need. He gave us commandments and created covenants with us to teach and protect us. He sent teachers through the prophets to instruct us how to live so that we could have happy full lives. Even when the world became lost he sent himself through his only Son, Jesus and died for you to save you so that you cloud have eternal peace and happiness in God's home, heaven. God loves you. He wants to commune with you. He wants to share in your greatest joys and be there for you in your darkest hours. Here on earth God wants those that choose to follow and believe him to stand strong together. That is why his Son Jesus came, in part, to to establish his Church. God wants you to keep the sabbath holy by communing with him, partaking in Communion and communing with your fellow Christians. It can be hard in this day and age where few can agree with anything, but God knows that when we come together and love as he taught we can create a glimpse of heaven on earth. That is why Jesus asked us to go out and proclaim the gospel, to share our faith and love, to work to bring all into the fold.


Gospel
John 17:1-11
1When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee, 2since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. 3And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 4I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do; 5and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made. 6"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word. 7Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee; 8for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine; 10all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.