THIS is a good advice for those who
are trapped in a
predicament that tempts them to plunge
into hopelessness and despair.
We should not delay in having to begin
and begin again, no matter how
many times we have to do it. We just
have to move on. God is always
merciful.
Whatever failures or sins we may
have committed, no matter
how grave and ugly they are, we just
have to go to him, asking for
forgiveness and he will forgive us. We
just have to move on.
brat finally came to his senses after
suffering so much for his
stupidity and decided to go back to his
father even if he would not
anymore be considered his son. The
father welcomed him back with great
joy and restored him to his dignity.
The important thing is just to come
home. We may have
strayed from the right way and have done
it knowingly and freely, and
therefore with guilt. But God is always
a father. He will never reject
his son.
In other words, we should just come
home. It’s
understandable that we can present
ourselves to God with shame and
fear, but let’s be reassured that God
will always take us back most
happy with our return.
This piece of advice is most
relevant to those who suffer
from some persistent weakness and misery
that tempt them to fall sad
and depressed. And many people nowadays
find themselves in this
predicament. They try their best to be
and do good, but somehow one
day they fall again into the same
weakness or sin.
At the beginning, they manage to go
back to God asking for
forgiveness without difficulty. But
since they seem to be falling to
the same predicament in spite of their
resolutions and effort, they
feel that they are already hopeless,
that they are already abusing
God’s goodness, that they are insincere
and are hypocrites.
These thoughts and reactions
usually are the ones
suggested by the devil who take
advantage of our sadness and sorrow to
inflict a greater harm on us. He will do
everything to convince us
that we are a hopeless case. We should
be forewarned of this
possibility.
There is no denying that while we
are here on earth, we
will always be hounded by all kinds of
trials coming from our
weaknesses, the allurements of the world
and the wiles of the devil.
With our weaknesses alone, we
already have a lot of load,
and they can be very disgusting.
Something in us will always push us
to be and to do good, and we try to
follow that urge. Yet, for one
reason or another, we would just fail.
This can happen even in the
most unlikely moment when we are in the
middle of sacred act.
We have to remind ourselves that
our condition here on
earth is always precarious and tenuous.
We may be highly gifted, and
yet we know that we have feet of clay.
We should not be surprised and
too worried about this condition of
ours. We know that God is always
around. The important thing is always to
go back to him, no matter
what happens. He will always receive us
with open arms.
sense of sportsmanship in our spiritual
and moral life. We may commit
a mistake often, we may also be fouled
by others many times, but we
should just get up and move on with the
game of life whose end is
surely a victory as long as we go back
to God.
We have to have that attitude of
having to begin and begin
again, without delay and without tiring
as much possible. Let’s never
pay attention to the devil’s whisper
that we are already a hopeless
case. We are not. We never will be, with
God.
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