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Inspirations
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 BEING
RICH IN CHRIST
- By Fr.
Harold Toledano, OAD
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“Nothing should trouble you, nothing should
frighten you; he who has God lacks nothing, only God is
enough.”
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These are consoling words written by
St. Therese of Avila based on her personal and mystical
experience with the Lord. This is to affirm that it really
does not matter much to talk about God. Rather, the most
important thing is to talk with God.
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Professing Christ as our wealth should mean
recognizing our poverty and experiencing the richness of the
Lord. In our humanity, we are poor. We are just creatures,
temporal and finite. But this poverty became a blessing when
the Lord Jesus Christ lived and shared of it through His
incarnation. By His assumption of our mortal nature, He had
let us feel His presence among us as the Emmanuel-God with us.
He shared all our ups and downs, and He has raised us to the
highest dignity as Children of God when He poured out His
precious blood on the Cross for our redemption. By His death,
He also gave us the possibility to share God’s divine life.
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The Father knows that our human nature is weak
and poor because of our free will, though we know He has
created us in His own image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-27)
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and has breathed on us His divine life (Genesis
2:7). So when we fell into sin, He has sent us the most
precious gift He Himself possesses: Jesus Christ, His Only
Begotten Son, so that we may receive through Him every
spiritual blessing in the heavens and on the earth.
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In Christ, therefore, we are rich because,
though creatures, we receive the Creator; though sinners, we
receive the Savior; though poor and needy, we receive the
Giver of gifts; though slaves, we are freed; though servants,
we become friends; though human, we become divine; though
unworthy, we are justified; lost, and we found a Shepherd;
though hungry, we are fed with the food of the angels; dead by
sin, and we are restored to life; and, though strangers, we
become God’s children.
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John 3:16 is enough to let us be certain that
Christ is truly our wealth:
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GOD
– the greatest LOVER
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SO LOVED
– the greatest DEGREE
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THE WORLD
– the greatest COMPANY
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THAT HE GAVE
- the greatest ACT
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HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
– the greatest GIFT
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THAT WHOEVER
– the greatest OPPORTUNITY
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BELIEVES
– the greatest SIMPLICITY
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IN HIM
– the greatest ATTRACTION
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SHOULD NOT PERISH
- the greatest PROMISE
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BUT
– the greatest DIFFERENCE
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HAVE
– the greatest CERTAINTY
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ETERNAL LIFE.
– the greatest POSSESSION
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Having Christ as our wealth, we are reminded by
Mother Teresa, when in one of her retreats given to priests
and bishops, she said: “Give Christ, always Christ, and
only Christ.” This is a call for each one of us who are
enriched by Christ to enrich other people’s lives, too.
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TELL US
LIKE IT IS!
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something wonderful and unique happened in your life lately? Did
God answer your prayer in a very unexpected way? Did you, like
Isaiah, meet God’s whisper?
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you felt His powerful hand working in your life recently?
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Everyday, people are experiencing God’s mighty Word in their
lives and it is a pity that very few know about it. Do you have
a story to tell? Some Good News to share?
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us (genesis@catholic.org)
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