Authorpreneur Dashboard – Helen Kamenos
A Journey Toward Perfection
Christian Books & Bibles
Two thousand years ago, a fire humbly and meekly exploded into our reality. That fire was Christ. Take the Journey Toward Perfection and be transformed. You will undergo a metamorphosis. You will become the butterfly that God always meant for you to be. A Journey Toward Perfection reveals a path toward developing an intimate experiential relationship with God. It is an in-depth study of the attributes recorded in the Beatitudes of Matthew 5. These are the attributes God bestowed upon us when He created us in His image. They are the traits necessary to love others as God loves us. When Christ invited us to deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow Him, He asked us to follow His example. He encouraged us to take a journey toward perfection, toward a loving God who extends His open arms to us even as Christ’s arms were extended on the cross. He challenged us to develop characteristics, such as humility, meekness and purity of heart. If we accept His invitation, we will embark on a life-changing journey. We will find ourselves walking in the footsteps of Christ. We will experience what He experienced and see life through His eyes. We will learn how profound His love for us truly is. We will begin to develop attributes of Christ that will sustain us through the many trials and tribulations of our lives. We will experience God’s true presence in our lives.
Book Bubbles from A Journey Toward Perfection
Love is a Sacrifice
If there were no evil in the world, it would be easy to love others. We would love them, and they would love us in return. We would be kind toward others, and they would be kind toward us. We would want to offer our love to others because we would comprehend the value of love. However, in our earthly existence, loving others is often a sacrifice. We do not always make time for those we love. We hurt one another, and we become angry toward one another. In order to love perfectly, as God loves us, we must be willing to deny ourselves, deny our pride and self-centeredness. We must be willing to love others, even if they do not return that love. We must be willing to forgive those who hurt us and even love our enemies. These are the crosses we bear in order to love others as God loves us.
Those Who Mourn
We view the death of a loved one as a profound loss, and it is. It is the loss of being able to express our love to that person and a loss of experiencing their love for us. We experience something missing in our hearts, a piece is gone. The separation from our loved ones causes us pain because we love them. This is how God feels for us. If we have experienced loss of a loved one, we have experienced the loss that God feels for us through our separation from him. However, we need to stop and take it a step further. For God, our death is a reunion! Our death is our passage back into the His loving arms. He is overjoyed to be reunited with us. Therefore from God's point of view, death just means the end of our separation from Him. It is a joyous occasion! Thanks to Christ, death has been vanquished! I Corinthians 15:54-57: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Genuine Love
Many believe that love is a warm feeling we experience when we care about someone deeply. However, Christ taught us that love is an action we take. It is what we do for others, unconditionally, in spite of what we "feel." Love is a giving act, a giving of ourselves and a giving up of our egos, our pride, and our self-centeredness. Christ's kind of love is for everyone, regardless of whether we are worthy of that love or not. Christ gives His love freely. We just need to receive it and love Him in return of our own free will.
Christ's Humility
As Christians, I believe that most of us do not stop and ponder Christ's humility. If we try to comprehend this profound act of God becoming man, just so that He could pay the price for our sins with His own blood, we would be in awe! We would have reason to fall down and worship Him. We would be able to comprehend the depths of His love for us. It is this realization that has deepened my relationship with Christ. Each time I think about it, my love for Him is strengthened.
