If I say that I am right with God, all I do is prove that I am not right with God. We are all sinners. We are all in need of God's mercy.
Do not doubt; sin we will. This is not to say that we should abandon our best efforts not to sin; certainly not. Since God calls us back to Him, God calls us not to sin, for to sin is to choose to turn away from God.
Despite our best efforts, we will sin. When we sin, God calls us to repent.
Do not doubt; God's mercy is greater than our sin. God is infinite, and so God's mercy is infinite. The name of God is mercy, as our Holy Father Pope Francis reminds us. Jesus is love and mercy itself, as He told Saint Faustina.
Do not doubt; God is love,* and so God is merciful. If you think that God will not forgive your sin, you forget that God is infinite, and thus that God's love is infinite.
God's love is greater than anything we think, say or do. So often what we think, say and do is sinful. As we come to see how much we sin, we can allow ourselves to be humbled. If we come to see ourselves as the grains of dust that we are in this vast universe, then we can welcome the humility that can lead us to beg God to forgive our sins.
God gives grace to the humble.** By the grace of God, we can come to be who God made us to be, acknowledging that His love and mercy are infinite. Through the grace of God, we do His will, and take our rightful places in this life, and in the next. Amen.
* 1 John 4:8,16
** 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:6
Do not doubt; sin we will. This is not to say that we should abandon our best efforts not to sin; certainly not. Since God calls us back to Him, God calls us not to sin, for to sin is to choose to turn away from God.
Despite our best efforts, we will sin. When we sin, God calls us to repent.
Do not doubt; God's mercy is greater than our sin. God is infinite, and so God's mercy is infinite. The name of God is mercy, as our Holy Father Pope Francis reminds us. Jesus is love and mercy itself, as He told Saint Faustina.
Do not doubt; God is love,* and so God is merciful. If you think that God will not forgive your sin, you forget that God is infinite, and thus that God's love is infinite.
God's love is greater than anything we think, say or do. So often what we think, say and do is sinful. As we come to see how much we sin, we can allow ourselves to be humbled. If we come to see ourselves as the grains of dust that we are in this vast universe, then we can welcome the humility that can lead us to beg God to forgive our sins.
God gives grace to the humble.** By the grace of God, we can come to be who God made us to be, acknowledging that His love and mercy are infinite. Through the grace of God, we do His will, and take our rightful places in this life, and in the next. Amen.
* 1 John 4:8,16
** 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:6
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