Apr 26 Sat
Should I be faithful constantly?
“When we were baptized in Christ Jesus, we were baptized in his death; in other words, when we were baptized, we went into the tomb with Him and joined Him in death, therefore, as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too might live a new life.”
“I want to remind you of a comparison which I have used several times. Think of those great birds that have the gift of soaring high in majestic flight. They don't feel the weight of their wings, despite their enormous size and weight. If their wings were cut off, or if they could take them off themselves, the birds would weigh less, but they wouldn't be able to fly anymore. Live the Christian spirit, I beg you, in the conviction that the obligations flowing from it are not a dead weight, or something negative. They are a constant declaration of genuine Love."
And by the faithful fulfillment of your obligations, we will fly very high, because despite our individual insignificance, we will all be living God's life. We will soar up to the sun, like ascending eagles.
Faithfulness is a "yes" we each say to God every day, and since we all belong to the one Mystical Body, it is also something we offer to others.
“Being faithful to God demands a struggle. And it means close combat, man to man, - the old man against the man of God - in one small thing after another, without giving in."
I am like a little child held in the arms of my Father God, facing my mother, the Blessed Virgin. Thus, Christ calls me every day to a new life in the glory of the Father, and then He appears to make it happen. I should not delude myself into thinking that I am the protagonist of my Christian life, for better or worse, but I am not.
He is the protagonist of history, and the protagonist of my salvation. My job is to realize that his grace is operating in me; my duty is to cooperate, to receive, and to respond — not to stand in his way.
I should ask him to remind me, each time, when and where He is showing up in my life, and to praise him for that presence. My wish is to seek him constantly, to find him, to open the door for him, to let him in, to sit down with him, to talk to him, to be always accompanying him.