Sufferings
1 Cor. 12:26 clearly shows us - If one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it.
It is not always easy to understand the pain that others are experiencing. Many people face difficulties that we have never known. Some are challenged physically because of injury, disease, or aging. Others are coping with emotional trials because of depression, panic attacks, or the aftereffects of abuse. Still others are part of a religiously divided family or a single-parent household. Everyone faces some problem, and often it is one we ourselves have not experienced. In such a case, how can we imitate God’s love? By listening intently until we understand the other person’s feelings, at least to some extent. This will move us to imitate God's love by acting according to the need. The need is different with each individual, but we may be able to provide spiritual encouragement and some other practical help.
So my friends let us all pray to God today to take away the pain and sufferings from everyones life and let peace take place with brotherly love between all humans.
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Well done dear friend @ bhavnapatel68 very interesting. beautiful words
I really like your thoughts "my friends Let us pray to God today to take away the pain and suffering of the lives of all and let peace take place with brotherly love among all human beings"
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I like reading reflections upon sacred texts and have studied the Bible a lot.
The trouble with these teachings is that they are a bit generic - Islam teaches exactly the same thing, as an example, as what you have brought up in this passage. Seeing self as other and other as self is a philosophical argument as much as it is a religious concept. It harks back to the Golden Rule, shared by all religions.
The more worrying part is that in efforts to emulate the love of God, we can only fall short - come to me as children is more helpful.
Falling short only leads to guilt feelings and feeds the manmade structures of institutional church - The Roman Catholic Church springs to mind, as ever!
What the teachings of St Paul should really be seen as are the contextual situation - not the generic situation.
Thereby hangs a very much more practical exhortation.
There was no religion when God created the world. We as humans have divided ourselves in this beautiful creation of God. If we put culture, religion, customs aside and see I am sure we can imitate God. There will be no more pain and suffering left in this world. Thank you for your kind comment.
Thank you equally for your kind remarks. I agree with your observation about the divisions forged by mankind. If you were to stack all the religions of the world on top of one another like a pile of books from the same printing house, you would find that they stack very neatly, yet mankind chooses to squabble (litotes) over the slight differences!
I do believe that, reading between the lines, you are not into religion but are into the spirituality.
Jesus (Yeshua) was not even a religious person himself. He lived in his spiritual relationship with His Father.
I constantly find myself defending Muslims - it is Islam, in my humble opinion, which has found permissions of false origins to perpetrate hatred. A Papacy structure would go a very long way to building bridges.
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