Grace Full

28/06/2025

Pagsisisi

Sa muling pagragasa ng baha,
Sa muling pagkasira ng tanim,
Sa muling paghapdi ng init sa balat,
Sa muling paghanap ng pambayad sa ospital,
Sa muling paghanap ng pambili ng gamot,
Sa muling paglanghap ng usok sa daan,
Sa muling pagtigil ng daloy ng mga sasakyan,
Sa muling pakikipagsisiksikan sa byahe,
Sa muling pag-iyak sa kahirapan,

Sana kailanma’y
Huwag sisihin ang sarili.
Huwag sisihin ang sarili,
Sa mga kasalanang ginawa,
Ginagawa ng mga ignorante,
Tuso at trapo, mga taksil
sa bayang kailanma’y walang kasalanan
Kundi ang maghangad, makakain,
dalawang beses,
isang araw.

Wala kang kasalanan
Sa isang bayan,
Sa sistemang biktima ang masa.
Biktima ang masa.
Sino ang salarin?

Mahigpit na yakap.

20/03/2025

The table is set. The Chosen: Last Supper is coming to cinemas April 10.

Get your tickets now via www.robinsonsmovieworld.com or over-the-counter at our ticket booths.

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12/01/2025

How I Stopped Being Stuck in a Rut

As I was asking myself, “Why am I lazy? Why am I not loving and taking care of myself and others better?” I came across a TikTok video saying, “To stop being stuck in a rut and being lazy, you have to forgive yourself.”

Immediately, thoughts of all my failures came flashing back at me. I thought, “oh boy, maybe I really deserve the rut I’m in.”

After watching a lot of “how to fight laziness” videos, I thought ‘wow that’s new, but how do I forgive myself?’ As a Christian who attended so many services and heard many sermons, I really should’ve known and been so sure about this, but why didn’t I? After all, the Gospel is about the forgiveness of sins through Jesus, right?

And so, this is the story of how God personally revealed to me the amazing truth of how He offers grace and forgiveness to those who repent and love Jesus.

I have always been the kind of person who’s wary of hurting others. I strived to never cause harm or stress to others, so I thought I never really did anything that would require me to ask for forgiveness. However, something I’m aware of is that we, as Christians, are called to bear fruit. And I believe that I never have and never did bear fruit.

And so, the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree scares me. I’ve always beaten myself up for all the times I failed to share the Good News to friends and family. I kept living a life where I know Jesus is my Lord and Savior, but I never really put the effort to declare and share it to other people. I actually tried sometimes, but cowardice, laziness, and shyness overcame me. I know it is “the one thing” God wants me to do, but I just couldn’t and wouldn’t— and that’s the sin I couldn’t forgive myself for.

And then I came across a TikTok video of Monique Thomas sharing the story of how Jesus forgave Peter after denying Jesus three times. And it went like this:

“Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Jesus asked Peter.

“Yes, Lord. You know I love thee,” Peter answered.

“Then feed My sheep,” Jesus said.

I felt as if it is a question Jesus has for all of us who repents. He shows mercy and forgiveness. I think I never really had a true sense of what repentance is before that night. Truly, God is loving me in spite of me. He is so kind and gracious to give me another chance to start a new life with Him, following Him, feeding His sheep.

And how beautiful it is that while offering forgiveness, Jesus also prayed for Peter beforehand to have the faith to overcome his denials. Now, when I ask myself, “Do I really deserve living a good life after all the times I failed God? Should I start living a better life?” I will choose to remember and hear the words of Jesus:

“But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers.” - Luke 22:32

Photo Credit: Christ in Gethsemane, Heinrich Hofmann, 1886

06/12/2024

The Blessing in The Perfection of Faith

In as much as God wants to bless His children, He also wants them to be perfected in faith.

Blessings may draw us near to Him, but God wants us to be intimate with Him solely because we believe that He is gracious and merciful to love us despite our sins. In this way, when God allows the blessings be taken away, we know that it is just to test our faith and not because God doesn’t love us anymore. Our faith must be firmly founded in the truth that all the time, God is good and faithful.

And for sure, we cannot perfect our faith alone. We need God’s help. That’s why:

As our Master, He gave us commands to obey and guide us.

As our Teacher, He is generous to give wisdom to those who ask in faith (no doubting!).

As our Rescuer, whenever we fail the test, He is merciful to forgive us and bring us out of our life’s “Egypt.”

As our Comforter, He gave us His Word to show us that despite trials and failures, He is full of grace to give us rest and welcome us back into His arms.

Most of all, God is our Lover. “For He so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God sent Jesus into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Whenever you find yourself without the “blessings” you prayed for, maybe God wants you to know something about Him other than the blessings He can give. Is He reminding you that He is Master? Teacher? Rescuer? Comforter? Lover? What is the Holy Spirit telling you?

His grace is known to be a mystery that “It meets us where we are, but it does not leave us where it found us.”

29/11/2024

I need and want many things. I often feel anxious because I lack the resources and courage to obtain them.

Then I realized, I feel anxious because I put the trust in myself, not in God. Despite this, still, God is good. God is the One Who Sees.

And He has been so kind to remind me this through His word and through giving me the things I wanted and needed--when I asked. Each thing I desired, He gave. He sees me. He only desires that we come in humility before Him.

Matthew 7:11 says, “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”

01/10/2024

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:33-34