proverbs 30:5-9; Psalm 119 your word O Lord is a lamp for my feet; Lk 9:1-6
Here are a few words from Our Pope from his visit to the United Kingdom, London, England and surrounding areas. This is taken from the vigil mass for the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
"If we have accepted the truth of Christ and committed our lives to him, there can be no separation between what we believe and the way we live our lives. We do not merely accept the truth in a purely intellectual act as embrace it in a spiritual dynamic that penetrates to the core of our being. Truth is passed on not merely by formal teaching, important as that is, but also by the witness of lives lived in integrity, fidelity and holiness."
What the world needs is more witnesses, and I am not talking Jehovah.
In the words of the proverbs today, "put falsehood far from me, give me neithe rpoverty nor riches; provide me only with the food I need; lest being full, I deny you,saying, "who is the Lord?" or being in want I steal and profane the name of my God."
The man that searches for the good life discovers that goodness of one's life revolves around honor to God above all. Is this not what a true witness of faith is all about. Honor is never just a mental thing. It must be seen in the physical world by our active life.
Give me only what I need, nothing more, nothing less and this is the intsect between faith and life; this is where our witness beocmes true and authentic.
Jesus demanded this of his apostles as he sends them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God taking nothing for the journey, "neither walkign stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, andl et no one take a seocnd tunic."
Let nothing get in the way of the witness you are to bring to the world. Your only possession is the faith of a mustard seed, be not afraid to plant it, to use it, to let it grow wild.
What interferes with our witness of faith in our life? What do we chose to cling to outside of our dedication and trust in Our Father above? What gets in the way of authentic living of faith?
What do you truly need and what is excess?
4 comments:
What gets in the way of authentic living of faith? My husband.
maybe he is exactly what you need to live your faith...
Sorry, but "no"...
I guess we could all look at the cross and say, "sorry, 'no'." We all could tell the Father we rather not live our faith becasue the circumstances are not pleasant ro ideal. But since when is the cross ideal or pleasant.
Fortunately for us, our weak and feeble will finds its strength in the one who stares at the cross, this difficult path ahead and says, "let it be your will not mine."
IN Christ we never hear no, maybe later, not right now, but instead "yes." If you do not live your faith now, when will you live it.
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