Saturday, February 25, 2012

Christian Living During Lent: Are You Strong Enough?

From Catholic Lane

Carrying the cross everyday...


I’m not strong enough. Imagine if these were the words you told Christ when He asked you to take up your Cross and follow him. St. Mark’s Gospel reminds of us this very notion where Christ provides us with His unique blueprint on discipleship:

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it: and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospels will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. And he said to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power (8:34-9:1).’”

Many of us at one time or the other has echoed these words. Whatever the circumstance might have been, this profound yet simple statement evokes a journey towards the very heart of where we stand in our relationship with Jesus Christ. Sin makes us do crazy things. Please keep in mind I am not professing that sin itself makes us sin. We willingly carry out our own concupiscence every day. When we engage or indulge our sinful passions, it genuinely reflects a characteristic that we are “not strong enough” when it comes to handling the near occasion of sin.

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