Blog 223 Faith in Jesus
Each Christmas in our lliturgy we go to Bethleham in faith so that Jesus can come to us all durng the rest of the year in love.
Without faith Jesus would not be real for us. We would not know what He said and did.
Without knowing what He said and did we would not know that He loved us and how much He loved us long ago and now.
Without faith we would not know that Jesus is God. We could not pray to Him and through Him to the Father. He could not forgive our sins and lead us to the eternal happiness He promised to those who do the Father's will.
A prayer for Christmas or for any time:
Father, Thank You for the gift of faith, won for us by Jesus
and offered to us in the love of the Holy Spirit. Help us
realize how precious this gift is by realizing that without it
we could no more hope to know and love You as You
wanted to be known and loved than we could hope to
cast a shadow on the pavement in the dark.
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That insight and analogy of the light and the shadow on the pavement stems
from the statement of Jesus identifying Himself as the light of the world.
Jn 8: 12.
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