Improving Your Life through Spiritual Reflections

A spiritual reflection is a short meditation that packs a huge meaning. Here are some modern-day spiritual reflections for your consideration.

Getting to heaven is not just a “me and Jesus thing.” If you’re going to the moon, you will need everyone at NASA helping you. Plus, you will have to obey their rules. If you’re going to go to Europe from the USA, you will need the State Department and the people that run the airline or the ocean liner helping you, and you will have to obey their rules. So, if you’re going to heaven, you will need the Church that Jesus Himself set up for us all, and you will have to obey its rules as well.

Trust in God like never before. You trust in an airplane pilot to know what he’s doing and where he is going to take the plane. If you do that, you just need to trust in the infallible and perfect God that much and a whole lot more. 

If you don’t think it’s right to tell your sins to a priest so that he can heal your soul through his God-given (John 20:22-23) right of forgiveness in Christ’s name, then please do not tell your aches and pains to a doctor either. Instead, just go straight to God and ask Him to cure your body, because He’s a much better healer than any man, and He’s much cheaper as well. In fact, you can now drop your health insurance, because you won’t need it anymore with God as your healer.

Our Need for Authority

We all tend to look down on the self-righteous Pharisees, who never would have crucified Jesus if they knew who he really was. We, on the other hand, know who Jesus really is, and yet we still nail Him to the cross with our sins.

In the world, there must be authority figures and organizations or there will be chaos. In baseball, there MUST be an authoritative umpire calling balls and strikes and “out” or “safe”, or there will be chaos. On the highways, there MUST be an authoritative policeman stopping speeders and drunks or there will be chaos. In law, there MUST be authoritative judges making decisions for society, or there will be chaos. So why is it when it come to our salvation so many people say that it’s only me and my Bible, with no authority figure or organization? That leads to over 30,000 different denominations all claiming to have the truth, and all believing something different than the others.

 C.S. Lewis once said, “Hell is full of people who once said “MY will be done;” Heaven is full of people who once said “THY will be done.”

God did not make us for immorality in the flesh; rather, he made us for immortality in the spirit. Notice how the “†”, or cross, changes immorality into immor†ality!

The Three Wise men followed the Star of Bethlehem to find Jesus. Today, the wisest among us who wish to find Jesus will also follow the true star of Bethlehem, Mary, who always leads us to Jesus faster than any other way.

In the Old Testament, the nation of Israel was always powerful and victorious when they had the Ten Commandments (the Word of God) and the Ark of the Covenant (the container that held the Ten Commandments) in the front of the battle. In the New Testament and today, the new Israel (the Church) is always powerful and victorious when we have the Word of God made Flesh, the Eucharist; and the Virgin Mary (the New Testament Ark of the Covenant who once held the Word of God made Flesh for nine months) at the forefront of our spiritual battles.

Effects of Sin on Our Lives

Just as Jesus Christ sanctified the sin-forgiving waters of baptism through His baptism, even though He had no need of being forgiven for sins Himself, just so, Jesus Christ sanctified the womb by living there for nine months, even though he could have appeared on earth without being born as a child. And that is why the devil and his minions here on earth love abortion, because it desecrates the tabernacle where Jesus once lived, the womb.

Putting junk food in your body ruins your physical health with what seems good going down. Likewise, putting junk in our brains, like pornography, ruins our spiritual health, with what seems good going down: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (Proverbs 16:25)

Sin is like a boomerang – It feels mighty good to throw it and experience pleasure, but when you least expect it, it will come back to hit you in the back of the head, with 1000 times more pain than the pleasure you initially experienced.

The absolute worst thing that can happen to a man is to be able to do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it, and to be surrounded by enablers. Because nine times out of 10, he will choose illicit sex, money, power, booze, drugs, or some other sinful pleasure. 

​Satan will always show you a great time here on earth… for awhile. He will allow you to experience great pleasure in committing your personal mortal sin over and over and over again. But one day, when you least expect it, he will demand payment from you, which will be your immortal soul burning forever in hell. As you live, so shall you die.

Mortal sin does two basic things to you: It dims your intellect and weakens your will. By satan’s design, these things happen to you as a result of committing mortal sin so that you soon become addicted to sinning. But being a stupid tower of jello is absolutely no way to go through life.

Fight Sin with Truth

It is very true to say that Jesus came down to earth to die for the sins of humanity; but it is infinitely TRUER to say that Jesus came down from heaven to die for the sins of each one of us individually, because He would have done so had we been the only person on earth.

The Truth is the Truth whether you think it should or should not be the Truth. The fact that you do not like the Truth does not negate the Truth; it only means you prefer a lie.

Only dead bodies go with the current. It takes live ones to swim against the flow of filth being dished out by Hollywood, the Media, Academia, Congress, Socialists, Scientists, and Madison Avenue. And this river of polluted waste, like all rivers, empties into a larger body of water; in this case a lake, a lake of fire.

Periodic pruning of fruit trees by man causes new growth, a stronger supporting structure, deeper roots, and abundantly more fruit in the spring and summer. Periodic pruning of humans by God with suffering does EXACTLY the same thing.

Why is it that the exact same people who say that the Catholic Church didn’t do enough to stop Hitler during WWII also say that because of the separation of church and state, the Catholic Church should not speak out on abortion and homosexuality?

If you put one rotten apple into a sack with 20 good apples, the one rotten one will always cause the other 20 to go bad. The 20 good apples never cause the one rotten one to become good. To save the 20 good apples, you have to remove the one bad apple, period. It’s the same strategy as with removing bad companions.

Want to give the devil power over you? Then be like him! Be prideful! Never forgive anyone, especially those close to you! Hate people like he does! Teach everyone a lesson for the evil they do to you, like he does! On the other hand, if you want to give God power in your life, then be like Him! Be meek and humble! Forgive everyone, right away! Love everyone, like He does! Your mind, your body, your soul, and your emotional state will then be healed.

We are all in the middle of the stormy ocean, surrounded by hungry sharks named lust, greed, gluttony, envy, anger, pride, and sloth. We have three choices and only three choices. First, we can let these sharks devour us, and then we go to hell for sure. Second, we can choose to fight these sharks on our own, in our tiny, leaky, personal rowboat, by being a “good person,” and then we take our slim chances on eternal salvation. Third, we leave our tiny leaky rowboat and get into the huge battleship known as The Catholic Church that Jesus Christ founded, and we fight these sharks using His battleship weapons of the sacraments, scripture meditation, grace, faith, prayer, good works, humility, charity, and the other virtues, and then and only then are are assured of going home to heaven.

The surest and fastest way to overcome the mortal sin of looking at pornography is to sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament during Adoration and stare at the flesh of Jesus Christ while meditating on his Holy Passion and wounds, which He underwent for you

If we are true to Christ and all that he provides us, the devil is more afraid of us than we are of him, by an infinite factor of unlimited grace.

Covenant with Christ

Catholics are in a covenant relationship with Jesus (the New Covenant). A covenant is like marriage, where the spouses declare that “I am yours and you are mine”, and the two become one flesh. In a marriage, the family of one spouse becomes the family of the other spouse. And that always includes the mother-in-law (Mary)!

Three persons in the Bible took Mary into their homes, and were thus blessed immensely. Joseph took Mary into his home. Elizabeth took Mary into her home. John took Mary into his home. Will you?

God makes diamonds out of black lumps of coal, which takes years of pressure. Man finds the coal, cuts it so that it has many facets, and then polishes it with lots of rough grit, until it shines and sparkles and is pleasing to its owner. Our lives are a lot like that. We are all black lumps of coal under a lot of pressure with money, family, and job. Then God finds us, cuts out our imperfections, and grinds and polishes us with many trials and rough times. Then, when we are done, we sparkle like the Son!

“And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.’” (Luke 22:20) So the Eucharist, NOT THE BIBLE, is the New Covenant with Jesus’ blood.

God’s Mercy for Our False Realities

If you took all of the sins ever committed in the world, from Adam and Eve until now, and multiplied them by a trillion trillion, the total would not even amount to 1/10 of 1% of the amount of God’s mercy for those who love Him.

When those who believe in godless Darwinism ridicule you for believing that an invisible God made everything out of nothing, ask them to explain to you how nothing created everything all by itself. For extra credit, ask them to repeat this process in a laboratory. 

In TV’s Mission Impossible, the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) team would always set up false realities to the bad guys they were trying to catch, so that they would not only give up to the team what they wanted, but would also convict themselves in the process. The “gotcha” moment was when they pulled off their masks to reveal that they weren’t really who they were thought to be. Satan works in exactly the same way, setting up false realities in our imagination, to get us to sin, thinking that it’s okay.