POWERFUL REFLECTION ON THE MISERY OF A SOUL IN SIN

By Daniel kabiriko -

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🙏🏻BELOVED Soul, let's Consider the misery of a soul at enmity with God. She is separated from God her Sovereign Good. Your iniquities, says the Prophet Isaias, have divided between you and your God. Hence the soul is no longer God's, and God is no longer hers. You are not my people and I will not be yours. And the soul not only belongs no longer to God, but God even hates her and condemns her to hell. God does not hate His creatures. He does not hate wild beasts, the viper or the toad. Thou lovest all things that are and hatest none of the things which thou hast made (Wis. 11: 25). But He cannot refrain from hating sinners. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity (Ps. 5:7). Yes; God cannot but hate sin, which is diametrically opposed to His will; and in hating sin He must necessarily hate the sinner who is united to his sin. But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike (Wis. 14:9).

😭O God! if a man has for his enemy a monarch of the earth, he cannot sleep, he is every moment in dread of death. And how can he who is the enemy of God enjoy peace? He may escape the vengeance of his sovereign by concealing himself or by taking refuge in a distant country. But who can escape the hand of God? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I descend into hell, You are present. If I take my wings early in the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there also shall Thy hand lead me.

😭Ah! Poor sinners! They are cursed by God, cursed by the Angels, cursed by the Saints, cursed also every day on earth by all Priests and Religious, who, in reciting the Divine Office, proclaim them accursed. They are cursed who decline from Your commandments.

😭Moreover Oh Christian Soul, that soul that is at enmity with God has lost all its merits. Should a man be equal in merit to St. Paul the Hermit, who lived forty-eight years in a cave; to St. Francis Xavier, who gained ten millions of souls to God; or to St. Paul the Apostle, who, according to St. Jerome, surpassed in merit all the other Apostles, -- that man, if he commit a single mortal sin, loses all. All his justices which he hath done shall not be remembered (Ezech.18: 24).

😭Behold the ruin O Christian Soul which mortal sin produces: it transforms the child of God into the slave of Lucifer; His beloved friend into an enemy whom He sovereignly hates; and the heir of Heaven into one doomed to hell.

😭St. Francis de Sales used to say that, were the Angels capable of weeping they would shed tears of pity at the sight of a soul that commits mortal sin and loses the divine grace.

🙏🏻Are you not trembled O Beloved Soul about the great misfortune which is that the Angels would weep, if it were in their power to do so, and the sinner himself weeps not! "A Christian," says St. Augustine, "if he loses a sheep or any other valuable animal, weeps over the loss, and neither eats nor sleeps; but when he loses the grace of God, he eats and sleeps and sheds not a single tear."😭😭😭

RESOLUTION/PRAYER
OF REPENTANCE
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🙏🏻Behold, O my Redeemer, the miserable state to which I have brought myself! To make me worthy of Thy grace, Thou didst spend thirty-three years in toil and pains; and I, for the poisoned pleasure of a moment, have despised and lost it. I thank Thy mercy which still gives me time to recover it if I wish. Yes, I wish to do everything in my power to regain it. Tell me what I must do in order to obtain Thy pardon. Dost Thou wish me to repent? O my Jesus! I am sorry with my whole heart for having offended Thy infinite Goodness. Dost Thou wish me to love Thee? I love Thee above all things. And here I have unfortunately employed my heart in loving creatures and vanities. From this day forward I will live only for Thee. I will love only Thee my God, my Treasure, my Hope, my Strength. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. Amen🔥

BELOVED Soul, let's Consider the misery of a soul at enmity with God. She is separated from God her Sovereign Good. Your iniquities, says the Prophet Isaias, have divided between you and your God. Hence the soul is no longer God's, and God is no longer hers. You are not my people and I will not be yours. And the soul not only belongs no longer to God, but God even hates her and condemns her to hell. God does not hate His creatures. He does not hate wild beasts, the viper or the toad. Thou lovest all things that are and hatest none of the things which thou hast made (Wis. 11: 25). But He cannot refrain from hating sinners. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity (Ps. 5:7). Yes; God cannot but hate sin, which is diametrically opposed to His will; and in hating sin He must necessarily hate the sinner who is united to his sin. But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike (Wis. 14:9).

😭O God! if a man has for his enemy a monarch of the earth, he cannot sleep, he is every moment in dread of death. And how can he who is the enemy of God enjoy peace? He may escape the vengeance of his sovereign by concealing himself or by taking refuge in a distant country. But who can escape the hand of God? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I descend into hell, You are present. If I take my wings early in the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there also shall Thy hand lead me.

😭Ah! Poor sinners! They are cursed by God, cursed by the Angels, cursed by the Saints, cursed also every day on earth by all Priests and Religious, who, in reciting the Divine Office, proclaim them accursed. They are cursed who decline from Your commandments.

😭Moreover Oh Christian Soul, that soul that is at enmity with God has lost all its merits. Should a man be equal in merit to St. Paul the Hermit, who lived forty-eight years in a cave; to St. Francis Xavier, who gained ten millions of souls to God; or to St. Paul the Apostle, who, according to St. Jerome, surpassed in merit all the other Apostles, -- that man, if he commit a single mortal sin, loses all. All his justices which he hath done shall not be remembered (Ezech.18: 24).

😭Behold the ruin O Christian Soul which mortal sin produces: it transforms the child of God into the slave of Lucifer; His beloved friend into an enemy whom He sovereignly hates; and the heir of Heaven into one doomed to hell.

😭St. Francis de Sales used to say that, were the Angels capable of weeping they would shed tears of pity at the sight of a soul that commits mortal sin and loses the divine grace.

🙏🏻Are you not trembled O Beloved Soul about the great misfortune which is that the Angels would weep, if it were in their power to do so, and the sinner himself weeps not! "A Christian," says St. Augustine, "if he loses a sheep or any other valuable animal, weeps over the loss, and neither eats nor sleeps; but when he loses the grace of God, he eats and sleeps and sheds not a single tear."😭😭😭

RESOLUTION/PRAYER
OF REPENTANCE
+++++++++++++++

🙏🏻Behold, O my Redeemer, the miserable state to which I have brought myself! To make me worthy of Thy grace, Thou didst spend thirty-three years in toil and pains; and I, for the poisoned pleasure of a moment, have despised and lost it. I thank Thy mercy which still gives me time to recover it if I wish. Yes, I wish to do everything in my power to regain it. Tell me what I must do in order to obtain Thy pardon. Dost Thou wish me to repent? O my Jesus! I am sorry with my whole heart for having offended Thy infinite Goodness. Dost Thou wish me to love Thee? I love Thee above all things. And here I have unfortunately employed my heart in loving creatures and vanities. From this day forward I will live only for Thee. I will love only Thee my God, my Treasure, my Hope, my Strength. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. Amen🔥
Don't define me by your logics, just feel me in your soul.

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