Sharing (Back from Junior School Retreat)

Good morning fellow sisters and brothers, ­

      Our topic for this year’s Junior School Retreat is: THE PURE IN HEART

      Man was specially created for God’s use. All the things God created are for man. But only man is for God. We need to contain him, or there’s no meaning being a man. We want him to dwell in our spirit first. Eventually, spread through all of our soul and body – our whole being.

Heart is the only gateway that connects our spirit and our soul. A pure heart means a heart without mixture. Our heart is the loving organ. God wants to make His home our heart. There should be nothing more important than the Lord. So He can come in us and fulfill Himself within us. He purifies us through our heart. Jehovah God is the light, and in him there’s no darkness at all. When we open our heart, the Lord is shining in us as the light. We started to love him and experience him after we open our heart. He expends Himself in us. Therefore, the veil is taken away.

We need to confess to Him in order to let Him in. Once we confess, He forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness, because He is the light, he is the life giving spirit, he is faithful! He is the only one who can save us from Satan, because He is God, because He forsakes himself and died for us on the cross. His blood cleansed us from all the sins forever and ever as long as we have a pure heart. At the same time, we loved God even more, and we forget all the other things in the world.

We need to take care of our conscience. Our conscience is what God is trying to tell us to do or not do. Consequently, our conscience is God Himself. God is always standing with our conscience. God never tells us to ignore our conscience, only Satan the devil does. We don’t want to listen to Satan. We need Him to help us take care of our conscience by talking/praying to Him more.

During cabin reading, I also learned we need to love our brothers and sisters. If we hate one of our brothers, that means we don’t love our God, because saints build up God’s body. If a brother can only judge and condemn but has no sadness, it proves that he doesn’t know anything about brotherly love. Hating brothers proves that there is no love in him. I also learned to pray to God to give me more love to the brother. Sometimes, man’s love isn’t always enough for everyone. So we need love from God, because God’s love is always abounding. God is the loving God.

I learned a lot from the Junior School Retreat. I really enjoyed learning the Lord. God is so amazing and so precious. I feel like being filled. I encourage more Junior School sisters and brothers to go next time! So you can love the Lord with your pure heart!

Thank you!