IT’S important
that as we flow with the times, obliged to
go with the different and changing developments and
circumstances, we
don’t get lost along the way and that we manage to stay
focused on our
ultimate goal which is to be with God in heaven, from
whom we came and
to whom we belong.
We have to
learn how to relate everything to God. Whether,
according to our human standards, things are good or bad,
favorable or
unfavorable to us, we have to know how to relate them to
God and how
to react to them according to God’s will and ways.
This divine way
of handling all possible situations and
everything else in our life has been shown to us already
by Christ. He
identified himself with us and continues to do so up to
now till the
end of time, so that we would know how to behave in any
situation we
can find ourselves in, whether it is good or bad.
Christ
precisely went all the way to make himself like sin
without committing sin so that he could show us how to
behave in our
worst scenario. He also showed us how to behave when
times are good.
For this, we
have to have the spirit of Christ, which is
actually given to us and reinforced every time we receive
the
sacraments. It’s just a matter of being mindful of this
truth of our
faith and of acting on it, by learning how to have
constant presence
of God, and conversing with him all the time.
Thus, it is
important that we know how to pray and
meditate and to become an authentic contemplative even in
the midst of
our earthly affairs. This is a skill that everyone of us
should learn.
This is basic and indispensable if we want to be
consistent with our
identity as a human person and a Christian believer.
This is when we
can say that we have the same spirit even
if that spirit is expressed in different ways depending
on the
circumstances that we would be in. A Latin expression
articulates this
very well. “Non nova, sed novae.” Not new things but in
different
forms, etc.
St. Paul
assures us that it is only in Christ that we can
manage to be “all things to all men,” (1 Cor 9,19) which
can be
paraphrased into us being able to be adapt ourselves to
all people, to
any kind of situation, without getting confused or lost.
St. Paul also
assures us that it is only in Christ who can truly
strengthen us so
that we do not get lost along the way. (cfr. Phil 4,13)
We obviously
have to acknowledge that this is not easy to
do. In fact, it is impossible for us to do it if we only
would rely on
our own powers. But Christ himself tells us that as long
as we are
with him, nothing is actually impossible.
And St. Paul
reinforces this assurance of Christ by saying
that “for those who love God, everything will work out
for the good.”
(Rom 8,28) Even our human mistakes and faults and
what-have-you can be
taken advantage of to derive some good.
We just have to
stay the course, that is, to be with
Christ. And this is always possible because Christ is
always with us.
Being our creator and savior, he cannot be absent from
us. It is
simply us who need to learn how to be with Christ all the
time.
We need to
train ourselves to relate everything to God by
way of following the example, and more than that, also by
identifying
ourselves with Christ who makes this identification
possible through
his grace, the sacraments, his word, etc.
Thus, we need
to meditate often on Christ’s life, on his
words and deeds. It should be a habit with us to spend
some time daily
for this meditation, so we can become familiar with all
his ways of
coping with our human condition
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