Dear Friends,
You and I have been taught that the center, the core of
Christian faith is to believe in Jesus.
Here are some realizations about Jesus to mull over and to
take to heart.
To believe in Jesus …
… is to
be faithful to who He is really and not to who we think He is.
… is to
know and embrace Jesus as the Risen
Lord.
… is
not just an intellectual thing. It has to do with the “illogical logic” of the
heart.
… is
not to be solitary. Jesus calls us to be a community of believers.
… is to
know that God acts in human life only when there is human readiness/human
consent.
… is
to both rest and be restless in the
faith we profess.
Still it is not enough to confess that Jesus is the Risen
Christ, present in our midst here and now.
Belief, if it is true and real, propels us into action,
seeing, touching, ministering as Jesus
did.
In your life, when has your belief in the Risen One moved
you to action? What happened?
Was it life-giving, life-changing for you or for others? Did
you come to look at and engage the world
differently because, like the disciples after the
resurrection, you could say “ I have seen the Risen
Lord!”?
Holy
One, Jesus, Our Savior and God,
We stand, walk, leap, run through
this world
With
all those you have given us as
brothers and sisters.
Help us
to be and do all that is possible and necessary
To help Your
Father’s Reign come to fullness..
May our
strength, energy and conviction
Begin
in You and end in You.
Amen.
May your week be blessed
~Joan Sobala, SSJCLICK HERE to learn more about Joan Sobala's "Fresh Wind In Our Sails" programs
