Losing faith...(reflection for August 27, 2006)
In today's Gospel, the disciples of Jesus finds his teachings to be very difficult. They won't accept the teachings so some of the disciples turned back on Him. Today, the disciples were faced with a decision, a decision to follow Jesus or not.
Many of us follows Jesus. In fact, majority of the people in this world are Catholics. Especially here in the Philippines, our country is most likely to be dominated my catholics yet if you would observe, very few are practicing it. My friends, in following Jesus, you must also follow his teachings and to do that we have the church. Some of us may say that we can follow Jesus without obeying the commandments and teachings of the church. People like that often loses their faith cause there's no one strenghtening it.
Similar to the Gospel today, many withdrew from Jesus because they lacked faith in Him. And up to now, many are still running away from Jesus. I remember an episode of the movie series "nip/tuck" where in the lead actor said that he last confessed 22 years ago when he was last raped by his foster father by that, he lost his faith and decided not to believe in Jesus anymore.
Many people walks away from Jesus because they blame Him for all the bad things that are happening to them, but they do not know that it was a consequece of his own freedom which is not clearly undertood by many.
Some aspects of our life may lack beliefs. Our soul is weary andf tired, rest in in the arms of God and you will believe
Many of us follows Jesus. In fact, majority of the people in this world are Catholics. Especially here in the Philippines, our country is most likely to be dominated my catholics yet if you would observe, very few are practicing it. My friends, in following Jesus, you must also follow his teachings and to do that we have the church. Some of us may say that we can follow Jesus without obeying the commandments and teachings of the church. People like that often loses their faith cause there's no one strenghtening it.
Similar to the Gospel today, many withdrew from Jesus because they lacked faith in Him. And up to now, many are still running away from Jesus. I remember an episode of the movie series "nip/tuck" where in the lead actor said that he last confessed 22 years ago when he was last raped by his foster father by that, he lost his faith and decided not to believe in Jesus anymore.
Many people walks away from Jesus because they blame Him for all the bad things that are happening to them, but they do not know that it was a consequece of his own freedom which is not clearly undertood by many.
Some aspects of our life may lack beliefs. Our soul is weary andf tired, rest in in the arms of God and you will believe
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