A Thief who Stole Heaven

Today is Good Friday. 

Why is it called Good Friday?

 Often we think of it as Bad Friday. 

It is so easy to listen to the lies of the devil. 

The devil wants us to think that today is bad Friday. 

Satan wants us to dwell in guilt and to doubt the GOOD that came from the cross. 

From Walking With Purpose - Praying from the Heart Study Guide

Lie-based Thinking

I am all alone
I can't do it 
Things will never change
I am stuck
I am defined by my failures 
My past controls my future 
Nobody understands me
I am powerless
It's all up to me
I can't share my secret
God doesn't love me
God can't help me
God doesn't care
God isn't all powerful

Distorted Thinking 
Overgeneralization
Polarization
Catastrophizing
 Filtering 
Blaming
The noose of "should" 

These are the lies that Satan is telling us. 

"That today is bad and that we are bad."

Jesus suffered so that we do not have to believe these lies but the TRUTH.

Truths about God

God will never leave me alone

Nothing is impossible for God

 God is all powerful

God is all loving

God holds everything together

God will rescue me

 God will provide a way out

God has chosen me

 God always forgives me

God knows me

 God is patient with me

God's mercies are new every morning

God is my refuge and strength 

God is interested in me

God is everywhere at the same time

 God will never change

God will protect me

 God is for me

God knows my future

 God will never fail me 

The Truth replaces the Lies.

"He didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to; He suffered so we'd know how to." Chris Stefanick 

 "It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love." Pope Benedict XVI   

I just watched the Passion. 

I want to believe the Truth and not the lies. 

I want to believe in the GOOD. 

 "A whole life of sin, one humble and confident look toward the Crucified, and there was the first Canonized saint, and canonized by Jesus Himself! A thief who stole Heaven!" - I Believe in Love by Fr. Jean C.J. D'Elbee