Every time, and I mean, every time, I put a link on this blog related to JihadWatch or news concerning the Middle East, I get "readers" from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This is no accident.
It is not only NSA which is following us. Automatic trips of some sort....or people wasting time on a small, very small blogger.
How glad I am to be a Catholic, free of tyranny and living in the love of Christ, rather than in the fear of losing power. I have never cared about gaining power, or status, or fame.
To be small and humble should be the goal of every Christian. Christ humbled Himself. From Philippians 2.
1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
2 Fulfill ye my joy, that you may be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.
3 Let nothing be done through contention, neither by vain glory: but in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
4 Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men's.
5 For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
9 For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names:
10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
11 And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
Those who follow Christ become like Him. We become like those we love.
I repeat; we become like those we love. We become like Christ if we love Him.
Christ is the Incarnate One, the God Who became Man. He is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and the Trinity is my God.
The reasons why idolatry is so horrible a sin are twofold. One, we do not give God true worship, the worship He deserves as God. And, two, we become like the gods we adore.
Have you ever noticed that people who love power more than God become tyrants, even in families? Or, that people who love money become miserly, unloving, turned in on themselves?
If we love Christ, we become like Him.
He is my God. Who is your God?
