Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

01.02.2026

Why choose God and not the prince of this world, even though objectively speaking, to live in this world it is undeniable that being children of God, being Christians and living out Christianity in a human way is not easy, because the whole world, the prince of this world, has made it difficult for the children of God. So, why choose God and not choose the easier path? What is it that must click within us that makes us choose the narrow gate and not the wide one?

It certainly cannot be out of fear of God’s punishment, because God does not punish anyone; nor can it be out of fear of losing something. Anything that begins with fear – every path, every initiative that starts with fear – sooner or later leads us to become discouraged and turns that ‘yes’ we might say to God into a weak ‘no’, into something fragile, and then leads us to become an indecisive person, torn inside by a constant ‘yes’ and ‘no’. So let us not use fear.

Without going into too much detail, the only answer I can give is this: we must choose God out of love, because God deserves to be loved.

The next question is: why does He deserve it? What has He done to deserve to be loved? I am trying to use reason a little more than faith. But everyone, even the prince of this world, Lucifer, knows that we were created by God; he too was created by God.

The other reason why He certainly deserves to be loved, apart from the fact that He created us, is that He gave us life and left us free. This freedom… indeed, this very attempt we are making to explain why we should choose the narrow gate rather than the wide one is the fruit of that freedom. So, a Creator who creates us free, who trusts us so much, who loves us to such an extent as to say to us: “I give you everything, choose whatever you want”, even according to reason, in my view, deserves to be loved. I would add: He deserves to be known, because the fact that He made us free and created us is only the beginning of understanding who He is, what He is, what He thinks, how He reasons, what He is doing now. So, in my view, these are already two very good reasons.

I think last time I spoke a little about those who said ‘no’ to God at the moment of conception[1], about those who are devoted to evil; they know that God exists. The one who knows with the greatest certainty that God exists is Lucifer. He has no doubt whatsoever about God’s existence; he simply wants to destroy Him; he has this madness of wanting to be greater than Him. But it is not that he doubts His existence; he wants to destroy Him.

There you go, here is another reason, in my view, based on reason, but it is better to choose one who creates, who loves, who tries in every way to restore, one who always forgives, one who tells us: love your enemies[2], give with joy[3], who can show us, precisely, what seems to us to be the narrow gate. Because, if we are honest, is not that precisely what the narrow gate is? Being merciful, letting go of the harm done to us, repaying evil with good, blessing those who curse us.[4] All this is presented as the narrow gate. But is this better, or is it better to choose one whose sole aim is to destroy? To me, the first seems better. I mean, aligning myself with someone – call it whatever you want – who exists solely to destroy… that does not strike me as very wise. Someone we know cannot create anything, only destroy. He has power, yes, and with that power he can alter God’s laws, yes, but he can only destroy them; he cannot create anything new. Here too, if I use my reason, I choose God.

I said that He creates us free. We might be tempted to ask: but how am I supposed to know all the laws of life? How am I supposed to know God? Which is, after all, the reason we exist, isn’t it? He created us to love Him, know Him and enjoy Him for eternity. Because, always out of love, when He creates – whomever creates, whatever has been created – in that freedom He has already given a gift: the gift of discerning good from evil. No one can claim to have fallen into evil, to have ended up there through no fault of their own, because from the very beginning God gave everyone the ability to discern good from evil. So, it is us who choose evil; we have the ability, we are free, but in His love He gave us that ability; we always choose it. He gave us the chance from the very beginning to reject evil and follow the good. It is within us, and if we choose evil, in His love, that flame of life – the spirit – remains alive, however keeping us alive. He leaves us free in our choice, but He keeps us alive, because only He has the power to give or take life. And tell me if this too is not a reason to love Him. That is, He has given us everything. This is true freedom.

I will not even mention that, in contrast, Lucifer crushes his followers with fear. Let us just look at what is happening now through reason. God does not even hold it against Lucifer. We know this by faith: even at the very last moment, He will judge Lucifer, but with a gaze of love[5], not with judgement, and in that gaze lies the full possibility of redemption if one so desires. This is what happens to each of us when we make a mistake: He always looks at us with a gaze of love, and in that love we can start afresh. This applies even to Lucifer, absurdly enough, because Lucifer, by now, will no longer be able to manage.

I was saying: those who respond instead with a ‘no’ – and with every ‘no’ that is spoken, we detach ourselves from the laws of life, we can no longer even understand them, we no longer have the capacity to penetrate them – within us arises only the law of destruction. So, everything that is beautiful, everything that is just, everything that with a renewed ‘yes’ brings peace, benevolence and blessing, with a ‘no’ brings about the exact opposite. A ‘no’ is incapable of seeing beauty; a repeated ‘no’ leads us to the point where we cannot even recognise beauty or good. Even what they seek – such as wealth and power – if we look at it, is really something constructed and not, in the end, all that beautiful.

Think, instead, of the beauty of those simple ‘yes’ that discover beauty in a flower, in a landscape, in nature, in the sun; they see it in others, those joys that give us simple joys and that refill us every time. Those who have said ‘no’ have detached themselves from these laws of life, but not just the first ‘no’, but also the ‘no’ you keep saying over and over. And therfore a void forms within us that we must fill with fake, false things: we might like a beautiful house, we might like a beautiful car, we might like a beautiful trip, we might like looking at a bank balance with a load of numbers, but they never fill us up. This is precisely the law of life, of light and darkness. And here too, I am saying this with reason, I am not saying it out of faith: I choose God.

What is the result of these repeated ‘no’? A constant fear of losing something, a constant fear that you are missing out on something. The greatest fear is that of death: I lose everything. Fear is always accompanied by anxiety, always… “And what will happen to me? And… what will we eat? What will we live on? And how will we manage?” On the other hand, almost a bit, according to the world, a bit crazy: perfect joy, tranquillity, serenity, “I am in God’s hands. Thank God. How are things? Thank God, fine.” It is all about bringing us to a dimension of peace.

I do not want to talk about Jesus Christ; I will just mention it briefly: why choose God? Because He gave His Son, the Love who took our sins upon Himself. Some might say: I do not believe in that. All right, but as a historical reality, Jesus Christ did exist; no one can deny that. As a historical reality, what He did is fact, not fantasy. The difference that all people make is in saying: ‘He was the Son of God’; some say yes, some say: ‘No, he was just a great man.’ But even in this case, even if only for the sake of reason, I still choose Jesus Christ and God.

So I say: in the same way as our ‘yes’ increase, the ‘no’ will recede; as we respond with our ‘yes’, we will help the undecided to recognise the light, to choose the good. As we move forward, we do not do so against anyone; we do it for the benefit of all, because the only ones who are harmed by the light are those who actually want and choose darkness. We do not impose the light, but we ensure that the light increases. And this is extremely simple.

The light is also the light of holiness. And what is holiness? Holiness is every choice we make with this ‘yes’, made with love in simple things, in everything we do every day. What does it mean to say ‘yes’ to God? It means saying ‘yes’ in the concrete actions that each of us has, in our tasks, in our identity – everyone has a task, isn’t it? an identity, a job, a mission, a calling – to carry them out with that ‘yes’, with this faith, with love, with blessing, for love’s sake, without grumbling or, at the very least, getting angry as little as possible; that is the light of holiness, which grows, which unites with the holiness of the saints who are already in Heaven, and which brings help to those who are still undecided.

So, why choose God? For His sake, for our own sake, and for the sake of our neighbour.

And may Mary Most Holy bless us in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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[1] See the previous audio recording “14. On the way to encountering Jesus Christ”, published on the website on 25 January 2026

[2] See Lk 6, 27; Mt 5, 44

[3] See 2 Cor 9, 7

[4] See Lk 6, 28-29; Mt 5, 38-41

[5] See the book “Beyond the Great Barrier”, chapter 15, “The Easter of Humanity”, p. 290