A loyalty ... confusing! The desert is a place of extreme hardship : storm sand, intense heat during the day, tenacious cold during the night, water shortages, loss of orientation. For those not initiated, it is death for sure!
Our spiritual life is also known periods of desert to which we are more or less well prepared. In these difficult times, a feeling of loneliness and abandonment we invaded. God seems absent. Our prayer seems pointless. The challenge is to persevere and be patient. At that time, it is good to remind us how the Lord has been present in our joys and our problems. Any
temptation puts our faith to the test. The temptation to ease, to enjoy life without taking into account the following day. The temptation to put God to the test, ask him for evidence. The temptation to put God in question, or worse, be mistaken for gods. The temptation to impose on each other the way we think and live. And the list could go longer. All our lives, child, adolescent, adult and even towards the end of our lives, the temptations are there lurking, waiting for a weakness on our part to infiltrate, to insinuate itself: it is laziness, the Pride, jealousy, envy ... whatever!
But what is even more confusing is that God continue to trust us. God continue to hope in us, despite our doubts, despite our faults and sins repeated. He continues to love us, to make alliance with us. When Jesus
from Galilee and takes the call to conversion that launched Jean Baptiste, he invited everyone at the same time, each to strengthen and grow in faith when difficulties arise in life. No question of giving up, no question of becoming discouraged and no question of reducing the requirement of the message of Jesus. Instead, it is in the light of Jesus' call to revise the way we relate to God, men and things.
Finally, if life is responsible for testing our faith and our faithfulness to God, let's be smart enough to avoid falling and let us arm ourselves for battle, prayer, sharing and fasting. It exceeded you tell me? Not for those who consider his means as a further opportunity to strengthen their choice in favor of the Alliance.
Our spiritual life is also known periods of desert to which we are more or less well prepared. In these difficult times, a feeling of loneliness and abandonment we invaded. God seems absent. Our prayer seems pointless. The challenge is to persevere and be patient. At that time, it is good to remind us how the Lord has been present in our joys and our problems. Any
temptation puts our faith to the test. The temptation to ease, to enjoy life without taking into account the following day. The temptation to put God to the test, ask him for evidence. The temptation to put God in question, or worse, be mistaken for gods. The temptation to impose on each other the way we think and live. And the list could go longer. All our lives, child, adolescent, adult and even towards the end of our lives, the temptations are there lurking, waiting for a weakness on our part to infiltrate, to insinuate itself: it is laziness, the Pride, jealousy, envy ... whatever!
But what is even more confusing is that God continue to trust us. God continue to hope in us, despite our doubts, despite our faults and sins repeated. He continues to love us, to make alliance with us. When Jesus
from Galilee and takes the call to conversion that launched Jean Baptiste, he invited everyone at the same time, each to strengthen and grow in faith when difficulties arise in life. No question of giving up, no question of becoming discouraged and no question of reducing the requirement of the message of Jesus. Instead, it is in the light of Jesus' call to revise the way we relate to God, men and things.
Finally, if life is responsible for testing our faith and our faithfulness to God, let's be smart enough to avoid falling and let us arm ourselves for battle, prayer, sharing and fasting. It exceeded you tell me? Not for those who consider his means as a further opportunity to strengthen their choice in favor of the Alliance.
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