Building a Relationship with God

“You shall have no other gods besides me.” It seems like quite an easy commandment to follow. Why would we want any other god? This One loves us enough to send His only Son to suffer and die for us. We don’t realize how easy and how often we break this commandment when we put other things before God. Suddenly these secular items consume all our attention. We forget about setting aside time to pray and meditate on God’s glory. Suddenly we have a new god.

Even people can become our replacement god – a new friend or boy/girlfriend with a weak or no faith. How many times do we bite our tongues instead of reprimanding these people when they need it, or how many times do we do something contrary to God’s will to make this person happy instead of God? I’m sure we’ve all done this at one point or another. I know I have. It made my life miserable. God knew what he was doing when he made the commandments.

We all know that God should be at the center of our lives, but how exactly do we make a relationship with Him? Here are some useful tools:

1. Prayer
It’s best that we set aside time for God to pray, but what many don’t realize is that we can pray practically any time, while driving, waiting before an appointment, ect. God can hear our thoughts, so you can just pray to Him in your head.

2. Confession
I can’t stress this one enough. It’s sad that many Catholics refuse to use this tool given to us by God. Most are afraid to admit their sins. We feel that if we don’t go to confession we can just pretend it didn’t happen.

But it did happen. We did sin. We did hurt God, and it’s something we need to make up for. Confession allows us an opportunity to repair our relationship with God and with the community through penance. It also gives us someone to be held accountable to so we’re less likely to sin.

3. Eucharist
This is defiantly the best tool for forging a relationship with God, because in the Eucharist we receive the Body and Blood of Jesus. We accept Jesus into us in a tangible way. It’s not symbolic; it’s real. On Christmas, Jesus came in the humble form of a baby boy, and during the Mass He comes to us in the even humbler appearance of bread and wine.




This is just a brief and overview and not very deep, but I hope you find it useful.

God bless.

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Hello all. I am CGotro. You can call me C. I've been meaning to make a Catholic blog but I've just gotten around to do it. Life is so hectic. I'm hoping to have a post every week on a different topic if life doesn't get in the way. Funny how our gifts from God misused get in the way of having a relationship with Him.

I've decided to call my blog No Fear because that is my own personal motto. With God we have nothing to fear. It's so hard to be Christian in these times and especially in this country with supposed "religious freedom." People even in our own churches are trying to pull us away from God. Politicians are even trying to make "constitutional" laws against Christians. (See fightfoca.com for more information.) Many Christians are scared to live Christian lives. They have forgotten the worst people can do is kill us, and that should be a gift if we live our if as we should.

Well, that's all for now. I hope to see you soon.

God bless.