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FRIDAY THOUGHT 7/11/08

July 11, 2008 on 12:06 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

Is That All There is?

This Christian stuff seems sooooo simple. Christ laid it out with two words:  “love” and “believe.”  That’s it.   

So, why do we (A) complicate the life out of it with what I call “Christian Calisthenics,” whereby we work up a pretty good spiritual sweat trying to make sure we have the genuine number of genuflections and good works in our Book of Life (“I have 99 points, while Tommy Fitzgibbon  has only 97, so Jesus loves me more!  Ha ha!”) and (B) walk around this earth worrying ourselves sick most of the time, as if all the Good News we hear on Sunday morning about faith, hope and salvation looks good on paper, but we’d have to be nuts to actually believe it?   

My point:  From my experience on this broken road of life and faith, it seems to me that there are no tricks or gimmicks.  It is that simple.  God knows what He is doing.  God cares.  That’s the gift.  All we have to do is accept and embrace it.  Simple.  Cool.  Enjoy.  — jri

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus

is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God

raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

        –    St. Paul

               (Romans 10:9)