IT IS DIFFICULT TO DEFINE LOVE OUTSIDE SACRIFICE
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Where there is no sacrifice, there cannot be love. Love grows only to the extent that we are willing to make sacrifices.
The only thing that makes sacrifice easy is love. Love enables us to turn the cross from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
What Jesus did was an expression of his love for us and for his heavenly Father. Jesus supports all those who follow him down the narrow road of sacrifice and shares his Easter victory with them. Peter was ready to love but was not ready to sacrifice and that was why Christ rebuked him.
Jeremiah in the first reading lamented bitterly the pains of his love for God through threats to his life from the people but he kept on pushing because he loved God much.
Our generation has come to abhor Cross like Peter, but we should know that Christianity without Cross is not Christ-like who told us to take up our cross and follow him. I would rather pray that God gives you the grace to carry that cross with joy and love of God that will take you to victory of the Esther Sunday than to pray for a Christian life bereft of cross at all!
Happy Sunday dearest in Christ!
Fadafido Cares!
