I\u2019m sure that if you have been following this article you have come to realize that the \u201ccall to holiness\u201d is a call to become the person that God intended when He created you. It is a call to become a genuine human being who is making every attempt to grow in your likeness of God as seen in the Person of Jesus. It is a call to \u201cput on Christ\u201d, as we say during a person\u2019s initiation into the Church.<\/p>\n
I put on Christ when I make every effort to \u201cthink\u201d and \u201cact\u201d like Jesus did when He was here on earth. I put on Christ when I begin to realize that this earthly life is given to me to learn how to unconditionally love others and myself.<\/p>\n
Is this a challenge? It certainly is but there are no gains in life without certain challenges. Life\u2019s challenges are meant to help us develop the courage, strength and fortitude to always place our trust in God regardless of how difficult the challenge might be.<\/p>\n
One of the first steps we have to take, however, in this process is to become convinced that with God\u2019s help we can truly accomplish this task. If you tell yourself you could never be more like Jesus, you never will. What we must say to ourselves is that: With God\u2019s help I can accomplish the task of actualizing my potential to become more like God as seen in the Person of Jesus. God\u2019s Spirit, which is within us, will give us the strength to accomplish what we desire to accomplish and believe we can accomplish.<\/p>\n
One of the bad things about our society is that many have been fooled to think that \u201clife is supposed to be easy\u201d, that \u201cpain is bad,\u201d and that \u201cchallenges are bad.\u201d This type of thinking paralyzes our spirits and keeps us from directing our attention to the task of spiritually growing and becoming the persons that God intended when He created us. Think about this!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure that if you have been following this article you have come to realize that the \u201ccall to holiness\u201d is a call to become the person that God intended when He created you. It is a call to become … Continue reading