Daily Inspiration

“Brothers and sisters: You are God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 3:9-11

When I lived in the presence of the Holy Spirit, I only looked away from Him once. I was transported to the garden when they came to arrest Jesus. As my eyes turned from Christ back to the Holy Spirit, I saw spaces along the ground, stretching from one side of the horizon to the other. Some spaces were empty, and others had stone slab foundations. In the spaces with a foundation, some held just one stone slab, while others had two or three stacked on top of each other; I knew these plots of ground and their foundations to be the multitude of Christian denominations. But below me, reaching high up to where I was with God, was one Church, stone slab stacked upon stone slab. I knew this Church to be the Catholic Church. I looked into the slabs of each denomination; I could see the truth found within, just as I found those with no foundation contained none of God’s truth.

I looked into the numerous slabs of truth, stacked one upon another in the Catholic Church, then into the Truth of the Holy Spirit, and saw it was all the same. I exclaimed, ‘It’s all true!” Over and over, looking from the Truth of God to the Truth of His Church, I knew it was all the same.

At that moment, for the first time in my life, I truly became Catholic. Before that experience, I never considered the quantity of truth found in the various denominations. For years, I have held back from sharing this because I have always used Scripture to discern what I experience before I share it with the world. In all that time, I never found this one passage until today. Although God showed me, until this moment, and until this passage found me, I never considered how important it is who we allow to lay our Christian foundation.

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