To be great in the kingdom of God

Seek to keep God’s and the church’s commands more responsible parents who are here and have a good experience raising children will definitely give me the truth when raising a small child who is three years old is really very difficult. Children’s pedagogy calls this period the “period of the little king.” You are a child. He begins to realize his “greatness,” and many times, the position of the smallest in the family abuses “for his own benefit.” He is restless, disobedient, everything he wants must get … it feels most important in the family. But let’s think about our childhood to the heavenly Father. We feel like too great before God, before men? Do we feel like little kings?

Only he who keeps all the commandments of God and will teach will be in the kingdom of heaven great (cf. Mt 5:19). Note that it is important not only to keep all the commandments and to be great, but it is necessary to learn only then to be great in the kingdom of heaven.
When a person “only” observes or obeys the Law, it remains unclear why the commandments maintain: out of conviction, out of fear, or out of comfort and calculation? However, he sincerely fulfills the Law; the man accepts the will that is the basis of the Law and manifests itself so that through its perfect behavior, it comes to light the meaning of the law.1 So, what is keeping the commandments about? What’s the point? It’s up to us; they were great in the kingdom of heaven. It’s about God and us. God gives it so that it contributes to the normal functioning of the world. If we want our world to work normally, and if we want to live normally, we need to keep God the law. Everything that God has commanded and that the Church has commanded is to develop man; it’s not built against man but for man. Today, the big “fashion” is to declare: Me I keep God’s commands – I don’t steal, I don’t kill, I have nothing to do with anyone, and I am good. The Church invented the church laws; it has nothing to do with God, you I don’t have to keep! But what is the Church, resp? Who is the Church? The head is Christ, and we are her limbs. Christ and I are the Church. The church is not far from me; The Church is not just the pope, the cardinals, the bishops, the priests…, each of us baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, we are living members of the Church.

When you do this, we will realize, we will certainly not say, that ecclesiastical laws do not apply to us. They concern us! If we didn’t see it that way before, we already know that, and it obliges us all the more to live accordingly. Let us keep the commandments and teach others to keep commandments, and we have a place in the kingdom of heaven. And let’s do it all with love and out of love for God and neighbor. Let’s start today; let’s not put it off until then because then we wouldn’t have to make it.

Jesuit Salvadore Ferrão, who worked on Mozambique missions, says: During the civil war in this country, the local bishops of three different Christian churches organized a prayer meeting for the end of the war. They also invited enemy leaders to their pages. Together they read the article of Matthew’s Gospel, in which the verse “Blessed those who spread peace because they will call them sons of God ”(Mt 5: 9). In The reaction of hostile leaders, she was surprised, “Where have you been all these years?” they asked. “Give us this book, we will return, and we will tell our people to stop the war. ” 2 give us God’s word and God’s law, and we will live by it. Such a sentence, such an order of God, stopped the war. It happened for God through the Church. We will speak against God and the Church and act as “small kings,” or we will keep God’s commandments, and so we deserve the heavenly one’s kingdom? Can I answer for all of us? – Sir, help us maintain your commandments, and thus to teach that we may be great in your kingdom.