It is a happy person who uses good sense ...

It was said that who uses good sense is a happy person, Sirach 14: 20-27. After reading this passage of the Bible in the Old Testament I felt shocked since what I expected to find was religious advice. what I was looking for in the Bible were tough, strong ideas that would help me endure adverse times.

Finally, what I found helped me more than I expected, "Anyone who studies the ways of Wisdom will also learn her secrets. Go after Wisdom like a hunter looking for a game. Look into her windows and listen at her doors. Camp as close to her house as you can get, and you will have a fine place to live."

I realized that more than understanding harsh thoughts of wisdom it is better to just learn and live under its influence and enjoy its secret ways. Sirach, the mentioned book of the Old Testament that records religious and practical issues is also called Ecclesiasticus. The book concludes: "Build your house there, safe beneath her protecting branches, and shaded from the heat."

Ten en cuenta la fuerza que hay en tu mente y espiritu para poder conducirlos donde realmente quieres que vayan



Inteligencia, alegría, Información son valiosos recursos para lograrlo ...  así, multiplicando talentos como aconsejan Las Escrituras sabremos esperar de Dios poseer todos los bienes que ni siquiera imaginamos.

En realidad, todo depende de que tan dispuestos estemos a hacer esta exploración del mundo divino ... el cuál coexiste con este mismo que habitamos hoy. Las mismas capacidades requeridas para sobrevivir en el mundo del trabajo, estudio y relaciones sociales son las que disponemos para las relaciones o experiencias espirituales.

No existe un corte entre una y otra realidad  de las que hablamos anteriormente pues es la misma persona sujeto y destinataria de ambas  experiencias. Lo que si debe saberse es que se trata de hacer uso de ese único potencial humano con habilidades, conocimientos y recursos propios de su condición y que va desarrollandose en vivencias y situaciones únicas de acuerdo al fin, rol y objetivo a que tienda o haya buscado en el pasado. 

Si la persona humana diseñada para realizar acciones inmanentes y trascendentes conoce el potencial que dispone para actuar perfectamente en ambas direcciones, horizontal y vertical trascendente y lograr de esta manera la realizacion de su ser, entonces podra hacer uso de esos recursos. De lo contrario, si ni siquiera sabe que puede disponer de ello, si no sabe que lo que tiene es todo lo que necesita para actuar de partner de Dios en la busqueda de su completo desarrollo humano y ser feliz, sucede pues algo así como si no tuviera dicho potencial.

Lo primero que diría es que el ser humano tiene un oído interior para oír y entender ideas, pensamientos y disquisiciones o vivencias espirituales. En un rol principal de la atencíon, aquí  la persona conoce una ciencia diferente, la ciencia espiritual o ciencia de la fe.

Glory be to the Holy Trinity on earth! ... beautiful catechism for people

I often provide links to the Catechism of the Catholic Church via this blog.
The reason for me is quite simple, the book is one of the most complete, interesting and enjoyable texts I have ever read.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc/index.htm
The Catechism is four books in one. It covers all the aspects of a Christian life:

Part One: An outstanding theological foundation of what you/I believe.

Part Two: Knowledgeably and a detailed explanation for you to enjoy the delicious acts of Liturgy.

Part Three: Since religion is not only philosophy or ideals to agree with, the book shows ways to make it part of your personal life.

Part Four: How to interact with Divine Persons in a Spiritual world, namely God, the Holy Trinity, through Prayer.


I know that the Catechism is sometimes hard to read because of technical vocabulary but through the following links you may find explanations that would make it easier to follow. You may also want to participate there in forums by asking questions or reading answers, etc. You may also find the 'Buy 'options but might not need that.
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-catechism-of-the-catholic-church/
http://usccastudy.info/

Temptations for a Divine Being?

Tambien Cristo pasa por diferentes tests - Also Christ was tested in his righteousness

Everybody will be tested in his/her righteousness including Christ
Todos seran probados en su buena conducta.

Temptations for a Divine Being?
Cristo pasó por diferentes tests y fue considerado Dios y Hombre digno de alabanza por su rectitud y honradez.

Lee el libro que te sugiero. Busca en google "Catecismo de la Iglesia Catolica, tercera parte, Vida en Cristo", es corto pero muy bueno!

Read this book. Google it as "Catechism of the Catholic Church, third part, Life in Christ". It's small but very good!

Means to reach the glory of God - Amaras al Senor tu Dios con todo tu corazon, con toda tu alma y con toda tu mente

Para leer este tema en espanol inspirador del articulo, buscalo en google:
"YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITHALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITHALL YOUR MIND"
... from Catechism of the Catholic Church, with paragraph number

2083 Jesus summed up man's duties with God: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."1 This reflected another call: "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD."2

God has loved man first. Theologically or naturally, there is no possibility for man the opposite, that is to say human beings discovering God and as a consequence because of love trusting his life to Him. there is no way for human beings to discover and make contact with God if He does not turn man to Him and teaches man and woman the way to interact and use resources to come close to Him.

The love of God is recalled by men because God Himself revealed man gradually many times throughout History.

On the other hand, the 10 commandments,whose first  article I am commenting here, is a n answer to God's love for man; a Lord Who expects to receive from man's free will a response. The commandments then make explicit the response of love that man gives to God.

ARTICLE 1- THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.3
It is written: "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve."4

I. "You Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve"
Worship is a recurrent action for men and not precisely in reference to a divine Being. Worship is a common practice on these days. Sometimes for another human or an action or

2084 God makes himself known by recalling his all-powerful, loving, and liberating action in the history of the one he addresses: "I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." The first word contains the first commandment of the Law: "You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him. . . . You shall not go after other gods."5 God's first call and just demand is that man accept him and worship him.

2085 The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel.6 The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the revelation of God. Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with his creation "in the image and likeness of God":

There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the world began . . . than he who made and ordered the universe. We do not think that our God is different from yours. He is the same who brought your fathers out of Egypt "by his powerful hand and his outstretched arm." We do not place our hope in some other god, for there is none, but in the same God as you do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.7
2086 "The first commandment embraces faith, hope, and charity. When we say ‘God' we confess a constant, unchangeable being, always the same, faithful and just, without any evil. It follows that we must necessarily accept his words and have complete faith in him and acknowledge his authority. He is almighty, merciful, and infinitely beneficent. . . . Who could not place all hope in him? Who could not love him when contemplating the treasures of goodness and love he has poured out on us? Hence the formula God employs in the Scripture at the beginning and end of his commandments: ‘I am the LORD.'"8

Faith
 2087 Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the "obedience of faith"9 as our first obligation. He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations.10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him.

2088 The first commandment requires us to nourish and protect our faith with prudence and vigilance, and to reject everything that is opposed to it. There are various ways of sinning against faith:

Voluntary doubt about the faith disregards or refuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief. Involuntary doubt refers to hesitation in believing, difficulty in overcoming objections connected with the faith, or also anxiety aroused by its obscurity. If deliberately cultivated doubt can lead to spiritual blindness.

2089 Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. "Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."11

Hope

2090 When God reveals Himself and calls him, man cannot fully respond to the divine love by his own powers. He must hope that God will give him the capacity to love Him in return and to act in conformity with the commandments of charity. Hope is the confident expectation of divine blessing and the beatific vision of God; it is also the fear of offending God's love and of incurring punishment.

2091 The first commandment is also concerned with sins against hope, namely, despair and presumption:
By despair, man ceases to hope for his personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it or for the forgiveness of his sins. Despair is contrary to God's goodness, to his justice—for the Lord is faithful to his promises—and to his mercy.

2092 There are two kinds of presumption. Either man presumes upon his own capacities, (hoping to be able to save himself without help from on high), or he presumes upon God's almighty power or his mercy (hoping to obtain his forgiveness without conversion and glory without merit).

Charity
2093 Faith in God's love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity. The first commandment enjoins us to love God above everything and all creatures for him and because of him.12

2094 One can sin against God's love in various ways:
indifference neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity; it fails to consider its prevenient goodness and denies its power.

ingratitude fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love.
lukewarmness is hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love; it can imply refusal to give oneself over to the prompting of charity.
acedia or spiritual sloth goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness.

hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments.