How do we know GOD loves us?

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How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
I disagree. For people who are born rich it’s easier for them to get material things but not necessarily love.

I’m not going to give a hard luck story or anything but I was nowhere near rich growing up (or now for that matter). However, by the grace of God I have a good job and am surrounded by people who I find it quite easy to love.
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
We know that God loves us, firstly, because the Bible tells us so. For instance, the Gospel according to John clearly says: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

Secondly, if God did not love us, He would destroy all of us in an instant, or create us for the mere purpose of destruction (Moses brings this point up when he had a debate with God). We know that is not the case, since God wants all of us to be with Him in eternal life.

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
Not necessarily. If money is the context, here is my take on this. The rich and the poor are answerable to what they do with whatever they were born with. They are required to do well and serve the mighty God with whatever they have. God see both of them, rich and poor alike, as equals. They are all his children with different levels of blessings. Yes the poor are also blessed.

This reminds me of the Parable of the talents. All the stewards in the parable were required to use those Kingly Talents in His glory until His return. The rich (5 talents), the middle class (2 talents), the poor( 1 talent) were expected to put into good use the King’s investments

The problem is the poor one, instead of using what he has, hid it away. Here is where the problem (or the suffering) arises. He forgot to do the rightful thing - Serve God with that talent.

The Catholic Church teaches about the Power of Redemptive suffering. Let the poor use it to his advantage or simply take it as wake up call.

By the way, All three proverbial fences, rich, middle and poor alike,suffer one way or the other.Whether they like it or not. The good thing is we are ask to strive back for his Glory.

God’s Investment is still within us. Use it.
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
How do we know God loves us? I would say look at the Crucifix. Having come, as He said, so that we may have life and have it to the full, Christ fulfilled this promise through His death and resurrection.

As for it not being easy for those who suffer to serve and love others, I disagree completely. Christ, who was rich but became poor for our sake to make us rich out of His poverty, suffered indescribably for us, and gave His life for us in the most amazing act of love. His love was shown most intensely through sacrifice and suffering - and through that we have indeed become rich, yet our treasure is one that many people whom the world considers rich will never be able to grasp. Many saints and holy people through the centuries have given up all to serve the Lord and others through poverty - in recent times, Mother Teresa was probably the most notable. What made it easy for her to love was not money, but seeing Christ in all those who suffer.

It is, indeed, easier for a financially rich person to give generously to charity, for example. Yet, Christ clearly shows us in Mark’s Gospel that God does not consider how much we give but how generous we are with what we have. Look at the story of the woman in the temple in Mark 12 - she put two copper coins into the temple treasury, while many rich men were putting in much money. But it was all she had. Jesus said: “This poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living”. Though the world considered her poor, she was actually the richest of them all. Out of all those who visited the temple that day, the most impoverished served the Lord in the most pleasing way.
 
Have you ever heard a classical symphony, dear friend? Have you ever trod in the glorious emerald meadows swaying in a summer breeze under a sapphire-blue, cloudless sky? Have you ever seen a truly monumental building in the Baroque style? Have you never talked with a fellow human being? We know God loves us because He has given us the capacity and inspiration to build, create, write, compose, paint, and emote in so many ways it’s really astonishing. God loves us so much more than we can possibly imagine, if judged by these external realities alone! :)🙂
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
not in my experience. As Christ warned, it is much harder for the rich man to enter heaven, and he explained why, beginning with the sermon on the mount and the beatitudes. They have a much harder time giving up the things of this world and performing acts of charity out of love because of it.

God’s purpose for his people is that they know, love and serve him on this earth so that they may enjoy his presence for all eternity in heaven.
 
Thanks all for the explanation;
Maybe I worded it not exactly as what I meant; if I were born rich I have all my basic need/materialistic taken care of, I could put my time and effort to do what God wanted us to do, to serve, to love, to help others materialistic and spiritual. If I were born poor, I might need to priority my basic need before I can give to others - it is true that what we give is not a matter of quantity but more of quality and intention, that what I meant easier and harder for those situation.

Why ones born to a better life than the others? What is God’s plan, some people live more comfortable than the other - ones do have better opportunity and other struggle just to live their life? What makes us born differently?

I understand Catholic is not suppose to believe in reincarnation; but why God creates our life differently?

Regarding purgatory; ones should be cleaned to enter Heaven - people who did the worst thing will stay in purgatory longer; how?

Thanks…
 
Thanks all for the explanation;
Maybe I worded it not exactly as what I meant; if I were born rich I have all my basic need/materialistic taken care of, I could put my time and effort to do what God wanted us to do, to serve, to love, to help others materialistic and spiritual. If I were born poor, I might need to priority my basic need before I can give to others - it is true that what we give is not a matter of quantity but more of quality and intention, that what I meant easier and harder for those situation.

Why ones born to a better life than the others? What is God’s plan, some people live more comfortable than the other - ones do have better opportunity and other struggle just to live their life? What makes us born differently?

I understand Catholic is not suppose to believe in reincarnation; but why God creates our life differently?

Regarding purgatory; ones should be cleaned to enter Heaven - people who did the worst thing will stay in purgatory longer; how?

Thanks…
The fundamental point is that every life has an inestimable worth and purpose which has been given by God. We best serve God by doing His will - for some that will mean living in poverty, some will have to be sick; for others doing the will of God will mean helping those who are living in poverty or caring for those who are sick. We often look only at the person who is suffering, but don’t consider that maybe their suffering is a means by which another will do the will of God. To go back to the example I gave earlier of Mother Teresa - she spent most of her life working with the poorest people in Calcutta. In those who were suffering, Mother Teresa only saw Christ - these people were Christ to her, and we are all meant to be like Christ in different ways. Look too at the example of the suffering of Pope John Paul II during the final months of his life. He suffered enormously, yet I don’t think anyone would say that his final months were not worth living. He touched many people through his weakness, just as he had touched many with the youthful zeal of the early years of his pontificate - he showed people how to bear suffering and weakness. Many will say that their abiding memory of his final weeks was when he appeared at the window of his apartment and tried to speak to the crowd which had gathered. He was unable to speak, yet in actual fact he spoke volumes. God chooses what the world calls weak to shame what it counts as strong.

No, the Catholic Church does not believe in reincarnation. Judgement comes when we die - and the possible outcomes are: heaven, heaven (via Purgatory) or hell. We will not be sent back to earth worse-off if we have lived a bad life, nor will we be sent back better-off if we have lived a good life - our goal is heaven, and for those who do the will of God, even if it involves sickness, pain or poverty, heaven is well within their reach.

It’s not really accurate to say that those who have done the worst thing will stay in Purgatory longer because we will be judged on the state of our soul at the moment of death. Most of us, if judged worthy of a place in heaven, will have to spend some time in Purgatory - just because sins have been forgiven does not mean that we won’t have to atone for them. Everyone can be entrusted to the mercy of God, but some souls will never get to heaven, but that is something that is left to the Just Judge.
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
Look around you, God created the universe just for mankind.

I don’t think the rich are loved more. I know many rich people with miserable lives.
 
How Catholicism explain - people who born rich is easier to do good things including to love others - while people who suffers would not as easy to serve and love others?
What is GOD purpose for HIS people?
we know that God loves us because He died for us. His death on the Cross, and the Eucharist, are the greatest proofs of His love.

But I disagree that people who are poor and who suffer find it harder to love… maybe some do, but there are many rich people who are attached to their riches and are not seeking God. But even if this were true, - God looks at our effort and choices, not necessarily if we succeed… He wants us to try our best to love others, whether it easy or hard. If it’s hard, there might even be more merit in choosing it despite contrary feelings.

God bless
 
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