What in your opinion does God expect of us?

[Kliska]

Could God love each and every one of us as he loves himself?

You’ll have to clarify what you are actually asking if you’re wanting an in depth convo lol. In Christ, we are the Body of Christ, so yes, in a sense He does indeed love us as He loves Himself.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

You’ll have to clarify what you are actually asking if you’re wanting an in depth convo lol. In Christ, we are the Body of Christ, so yes, in a sense He does indeed love us as He loves Himself.

As you said earlier, Love God, love our neighbor as ourselves. If we truly do that, everything else is covered.

When Christ spent his time on Earth, he would have lived by the greatest commandments, he could do nothing greater. He was commanded to love even those who condemned him to death and nailed him to the cross, this is a love beyond my understanding.

 

[PJM]

I think God expects us to do our very best to get everyone to the Party Upstairs!

AMEN!

Thnaks

 

[PJM]

The cited verses do not address all mankind, but only Israel.

Genesis 1:27-31a tells us why God created us and what he expects of us. Under him (which means trusting in him and loving him), we are to inhabit the world and be the caretakers of God’s creation. Even in our fallen state, we are still to do this. How we do what God created us to do (in our fallen state) God relayed to us in the Ten Commandments.

Along with believing the Creeds, and of course living in Christ, we are to follow the precepts of the Church. If you mean: Do we have a greater obligation than our non-Catholic brethren? I think we do because “to whom much is given much is required.”

I assume you mean non-Catholic Christians, yes? CCC #817-819 may be helpful.

Non-Christians CCC #846-848.

Absoutely agree, thanks and God Bless

Patrick

 

[PJM]

From the unregenerate, I suppose He expects nothing but rebellion and separation.
From the regenerate, I reckon He expects obedience to His Law and service to our neighbors, as well as worship and devotion to Him through the faith He so generously gives.

I think there is no distinction in His expectations of Catholics and other Christians.
The Lord knows who are His and that is all I am prepared to say about the condition of non- Christians.

Interesting thought!

But can God really {GOD= "All good thongs perfected; fairness and Justice being “good things”}, so can God really have different expectations for us?

God Bless you

Patrick

 

[PJM]

Honestly, I wish I knew. I want to serve Him, want to carry out His will best as I understand it … but that’s setting the bar so horribly low. I wish I were sure, beyond most reasonable doubts, how to know what He expects or wants. There are a dozen different directions to strike out in … if only even one of them looked reliable.

Here is summary form is what God expects {BUT this just open up to a great many other questions that we should be asking ourselves}

“we are to** Know** him,** serve** Him,** Obey** him, Glorify Him in this world so that we can be happy with Him in the world to come” Ct. The Baltimore Catechism

BUT what do these words really means and what is there obligation?

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God Bless you,

Patrick {PJM} here on CAF

 

[PJM]

What does God expect from us? Everything.

And WHAT my friend do YOU mean by"everything"?

God Bless you

Patrick

 

[PJM]

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

OK BUT what does that neans, what does that obligate US to do?

 

[PJM]

When Jesus called his apostles He said follow me. That is why Jesus established the hierarchical Catholic Church… so that we might all follow Him. That is what He meant when He said I will be with you always (The Eucharist). It is either pride or ignorance that prevents one from recognizing the One True Church that Jesus founded, the Catholic Church.

When protestants talk of a ‘personal relationship with Jesus’ what they are really seeking is their own personal Jesus. Any personal relationship with Jesus must include His Church and the Sacraments He instituted for us. Indeed, Jesus Christ and His Church, the Catholic Church, are One and the Same.

Thank you:thumbsup:

BUT what does IT mean to “follow me”?

 

[PJM]

When Jesus called his apostles He said follow me. That is why Jesus established the hierarchical Catholic Church… so that we might all follow Him. That is what He meant when He said I will be with you always (The Eucharist). It is either pride or ignorance that prevents one from recognizing the One True Church that Jesus founded, the Catholic Church.

When protestants talk of a ‘personal relationship with Jesus’ what they are really seeking is their own personal Jesus. Any personal relationship with Jesus must include His Church and the Sacraments He instituted for us. Indeed, Jesus Christ and His Church, the Catholic Church, are One and the Same.

THANKS a really great POST:thumbsup:

 

[PJM]

Love God, love our neighbor as ourselves. If we truly do that, everything else is covered.

Is that {dare I say “ALL”} that Christ desires, demands, expects from us {and certainly He DOES expect charity!}

God Bless you

Partick

 

[Kliska]

As you said earlier, Love God, love our neighbor as ourselves. If we truly do that, everything else is covered.

When Christ spent his time on Earth, he would have lived by the greatest commandments, he could do nothing greater. He was commanded to love even those who condemned him to death and nailed him to the cross, this is a love beyond my understanding.

 

[Kliska]

Is that {dare I say “ALL”} that Christ desires, demands, expects from us {and certainly He DOES expect charity!}

God Bless you

Partick

As He said in His word; that sums it up. If we go into detail, books could be written… well, they have been written.

 

[Michael68]

I think God wants us to deny ourself, pick up our cross and follow Him. I believe charity is the way we can pick up our cross

 

[PJM]

Could God love each and every one of us as he loves himself?

Yep!

Of Course

Absolutely!

AMEN!

God Bless you

 

[fhansen]

Jaded? with the utter beauty of the world He has given to us? With the wondrous provisions for our life here? Oh no! Would that not be ungrateful? The beauty that feeds our souls in deepest joy…

The world that Jesus loved.

“Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors…” 1 PET 1:18

It’s this “empty way of life”, chasing after worthless things in the end, that we must become jaded by. It’s human concupiscence, a looking after happiness in created things first above our Creator. And even nature, God’s creation, in it’s sheer beauty, is only a relatively dim reflection of His real glory…and it’s not enough. Not even close enough to totally satisfy man’s needs and desires, the desire for happiness he was made for. Even the most joyful person here on earth is miserable, relatively speaking, compared to the joy God has planned for man. We cannot know it, we cannot have it, here, except in “glimpses” at best, but it’s referred to in 1 Cor 2:9

 

[arthra]

It seems reasonable that humanity exist for a reason. {Isaiah 43: verses 7 & 21}

So what DOES God expect from us? Does he have different expectations for Catholics? For Christians? For non-Christians?

My view is that the question (What does God expect of us?) can best be answered by referring to the Covenants God has made with humanity over the millenia of time… historical and prehistorical.

A Covenant is a biding agreement that is made between God and the people…

From the Baha’i Writings:

His Holiness Abraham, on Him be peace, made a covenant concerning His Holiness Moses and gave the glad-tidings of His coming. His Holiness Moses made a covenant concerning the Promised One, i.e. His Holiness Christ, and announced the good news of His Manifestation to the world. His Holiness Christ made a covenant concerning the Paraclete and gave the tidings of His coming. His Holiness the Prophet Muhammad made a covenant concerning His Holiness the Báb and the Báb was the One promised by Muhammad, for Muhammad gave the tidings of His coming. The Báb made a Covenant concerning the Blessed Beauty of Bahá’u’lláh and gave the glad-tidings of His coming for the Blessed Beauty was the One promised by His Holiness the Báb. Bahá’u’lláh made a covenant concerning a promised One who will become manifest after one thousand or thousands of years. He likewise, with His Supreme Pen, entered into a great Covenant and Testament with all the Bahá’ís whereby they were all commanded to follow the Center of the Covenant after His departure, and turn not away even to a hair’s breadth from obeying Him.
~ Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith , p. 358

 

[benjohnson]

God desires for us to respond to the all the gifts he has given to us: time, talent, treasure, bodies, reason by both returning the gifts to Him as well as His other children.

 

[fhansen]

God desires for us to respond to the all the gifts he has given to us: time, talent, treasure, bodies, reason by both returning the gifts to Him as well as His other children.

Nice answer! The Parable of the Talents comes to mind.

 

[jinglebelle]

“And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me” (surah 51:56)

To live a lifestyle of worship. Everything we do is an offering to God; from the way we pray to the way we treat others. When you do something to please Allah, it is an act of worship./QUO
This is a post that should define all of us. Its not about who has the pedantic right to Heaven or who is the best hoop jumper. Here is the simple expression of what we should be