calling for help – Kanisa la Christadelphian huko Anderlecht

A road strewn with obstacles

And yet the Christian’s path is not a uniform one, without difficulties. On his way, many obstacles will never cease to oppose his happiness and the ‘encounter with God’ which is ultimately the condition of it.

First, there is sin. Present in each of our lives, it is a total or partial rejection of God, and in this way it binds our freedom and weighs on the progress of the whole Church. This is why, in return, the duty of ‘conversion‘ is imposed on us, that is, the turning of the whole life towards the Lord, leading to a new journey forward.

There is also suffering, which is both a burden and a mystery. Suffering of the body, suffering of the heart, or suffering of the soul, it rises up one day or another before man. Then it may be useless revolt; it can also be the hour of « hope« ; hope, « that flame impossible to extinguish with the breath of death », as Péguy said…

But there is also prayer which, in the very midst of suffering, or in the misery of sin, cries out to God our need, our distress, our poverty, and calls for his help.

No Christian is a solitary Christian. On the contrary, he is in solidarity with all his fellow men and women even in his prayer, for it is with them, in the Church and with Christ, in the Spirit who prays in us, that we can only call God « Our Father » and offer ourselves to him in the rediscovered transparency of our souls at the source of this « Living Water gushing forth eternal life. »

A road on a global scale

This is why the path of Christians is also the path of men, which passes through recommitment to the search for justice and peace. Justice and peace are not personal privileges. There can be no true inner peace without active concern for the peace of nations, nor can there be true love for God or for one’s brothers and sisters without an effective will to justice on all levels: individual, social or international.

The Church leads to the construction of the earthly city all those whom she gathers in search of the future city. It is then that his pilgrimage joins that of all humanity.

Preceding