John 5:33-36

Meditatio (Reflecting)

The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Oratio (Responding)

These works are His teachings, but even more, it is His death and resurrection. Without the resurrection, Jesus is nothing more than a man who died. But because of it we can believe that He is the one true god because not even death can touch him. Death is the one thing in this world that no one can escape. No amount of money, power, or ingenuity can keep you from this fate. The athiest in silicon valley, think that they can creat computers that will house human souls, and they are working really hard on this, but it will be a fools errand. The lord, creator of the universe, did not intend us to have to face death. It was a mercy because adam and eve chose sin over god. Eternal life in a state of sin, would be a fate worse than hell. I think that in folk lore, the vampire was created to show us what an eternity of sin would look like Total Hell! So death is the mercy, it forces us to face our lives, and our choices, and to hopefully reconcile. The athiest wants to try to avoid this, they want to keep themselves from facing the one thing that they cant do anything about, but they cant. So if Jesus were only a man, he would not be able to overcome the fate of death either, he would eventually succomb like everyone else. But he is not only a man, he is god, and who else but God can raise themselves from the dead. But even more perplexing, who else but God could suffer all the hate and indignation man could muster, and return from that fate of death with only forgiving love. Only God could do that, and these are the works that testify to his divinity, and since He IS god, then we have to to decide what we are going to do with that information. If he is God, then you must live as he commanded. If he is god you must change your life or death will not be the next step to eternity in heaven, but a fall into an eternity in hell. I do not want that for anyone, but it is your choice, so choose wisely.

Contemplatio (Contemplating)

Take time to simply remain in the presence of God.

Resolutio (Resolving)

Oh lord, help me today to choose you, to follow you, and to conform my life to you, so that I can spend eternity with you in heaven.