Faith is an Act

God has given us free will.  We should all take personal responsibility for our actions.  When our actions have negative consequences we suffer.  It isn't enough therefore, to expect God to fix it for us.  We must act in collaboration with His will to straighten things out in our lives.

This is what the Holy Father meant the other day when he said that faith is an act.

"Faith is not simply a matter of man’s intellectual assent to truths about God; it is an act whereby I freely entrust myself to a God who is a Father and who loves me; it means clinging to a “Thou” who gives me hope and confidence. To be sure, this adherence to God is not devoid of content: it enables us to know that God himself revealed himself to us in Christ."

We must act like Christians to stay in God's grace and receive His benefits.  Simply saying , "we are Christian" or that "we love the Lord" will not do.

 
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