This past Saturday, I attended the SFC CLP in Tri-Cities. The talk for this session was on Repentence and Faith,
The brother who gave the talk mentioned something that I’ve heard before, but needed reminders for over and over throughout my faith journey, and still do need!
Being a Catholic is more than feeling spiritually ablazed; it’s about continuing to pray even when your passion is empty.
Being faithful to God is more than just believing in Him because everything in your life is going right; it’s about believing in God even when you’re encountering obstacle after obstacle and you’ve hit rock bottom.
Being repentant is more than confessing your wrongdoings because you fear the consequences; it’s about choosing to fill your life with good deeds instead of simply avoiding doing bad deeds.
If all we did was “feel” like being a Catholic only when it’s convenient then how can we ever truly journey with Christ? How can we say that we want to be with God and want to go to heaven if we only take action when it’s easy for us? Feelings are fleeting; they’re temporary and change all the time. We must not base our faith on something so unstable and ever changing.
Believing in God is something so simple, but it is not by any means easy. Whether happy, sad, content or angry, we must make the conscious decision to always CHOOSE to be a follower of Christ, ESPECIALLY when it’s hard. It’s easy to give our all to the Lord when we’re feeling good and we’re in a good point in our lives, but our true devotion, love and obedience is tested when we’re in a bad point in our lives.
Like Peter who declares he does love the Lord, how are we going to show our conviction of love to him? What is the Lord asking you to do to prove your love for Him?
