God Is At Work In You!: The Devil's House versus God's House

Which one do YOU prefer? Choose wisely.

Imagine that one night, the devil pays you a visit and he takes you to a very beautiful house.

The minute you step foot in the house you find the decor appealing. Very quickly you realize that everything in the house including the rooms, the staircase, the pictures on the walls, the furniture, and even the carpeting are very much to your liking.

You find yourself very allured by the house and everything in it. How is that even possible; it's the perfect house!

Next, the devil, who is masquerading as someone who cares for you a great deal, tells you that you can have the house.

"It's all yours," he so touchingly whispers in your ear as he leads your soul from one room into another. He is so proud of the house, you deserve it, and he wants you to have it! He is going to give it to you.

How wonderful it is to be in that house, built with such beautiful materials...the decorating in each room is so masterfully done, everything is so pleasing to the eye... everything is so clean, so orderly, so tidy...the colors in every room appeal to you, you love the layout, the furniture, the smell...everything in that house is so incredibly w a r m a n d i n v i t i n g .

Your benefactor is happy beyond measure to see that you love the house. He has been hard at work getting you to like it.

YOU ARE NOT MEANT FOR THIS

All of a sudden the illusion is shattered when you hear a loud, commanding, and eternal Voice say, “NO! You are not meant for this.”

The voice of God brings you to your senses, and you find that you are no longer in that house.

THE DEVIL'S HOUSE VERSUS GOD'S HOUSE

Later that day, you write out an examination of conscience, travel to church, then pray in the chapel while waiting your turn to make a sacramental confession.

When it is your turn, you go into the confessional and are forgiven and healed by Jesus.

Then you leave that room, pass through the chapel, and enter into the church for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

While praying before Holy Mass, you stare out into the church while speaking to the Lord, and the sight of the beautiful church and everything in it makes you smile. It is always so beautiful there.

GOD'S HOUSE ALSO HAS VERY BEAUTIFUL ROOMS

The next thing you know, the Lord says to you that overnight, He had allowed the devil to take you through his house and tempt you to accept it.

Why would the devil tempt you to accept that house? Because the devil knows that you spend a great deal of time in God's house, and he doesn't like it.

The Lord further explains to you that His house has rooms just like the devil’s does, and you realize that you had just been in several of those rooms: the chapel, then the confessional, then the church.

There is also a beautiful mystical stairway to heaven in God's house! It was built with the most loving material, sacrifice love, and is held together with the Precious Blood of the Homeowner.

WHY IT MATTERS WHICH HOUSE YOU PREFER

The battles for precious, immortal souls are fought, and they are won, in God's house.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!

Though out the Holy Mass, you look at God’s house and contrast it with the house tour you were given by the devil over night, and are shown how that house had nothing holy in it, no religious pictures, no Crucifixes…it was sterile. Who would want such a house?

You are shown that God's house has the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

God's house also has a beautiful altar, a Crucifix, the Stations of the Cross, beautiful statues, candles, holy water fonts, plain wood pews, and delightful kneelers...

JUST FOR YOU FROM THE LOVE OF YOUR ETERNAL LIFE

In contrast to the devil’s tempting you with beautiful decorating in your favorite colors, the Lord shows you an exquisitely beautiful crucifix made of roses that He made and placed in His house just for you. Even His Body, His Corpus, is made of roses. God is so in love with you!

"How lovely, Jesus," you tell Him. "Thank You." +

WHOSE HOUSE DO YOU PREFER?

That incredible day, you found yourself in two very different houses.

As soon as the devil brought you into his house, under false pretenses, he began appealing to your fallen human nature. He studies every one of us very well, and he's very clever. He appeals to us through our weaknesses.

The devil's goal on the surface appeared to be to attract you to the house and give it to you because he's generous, but his actual goal is to steal your soul and trap you inside the house, with him, for eternity.

GOD IS LOVE AND THE DEVIL IS A LIAR

As soon as you chose to reconcile yourself to God and then honor the Lord and receive Him in His house, He began restoring your fallen human nature. He knows each one of us better than we know ourselves, because He knows everything. God appeals to us through the Cross.

On the surface, the Lord's goal seems to be to make your life harder and take things from you, but the truth is God gave us everything He had, and He also gave us everything we have. God's goal is to save your soul and guide you to paradise, where you will spend eternity unified with Him in love that we just cannot imagine.