I'll Starve if I keep Silent about Christ

I’ll Starve if I keep Silent about Christ

Starving is an absence of nourishment that our bodies require.  The same is the loss of our spiritual need that is becoming more prevalent in our midst of secular wealth that promises to destroy our sense of Christ in our lives.

One thing is certain that presents itself through human integrity is the need and desire to be with God as he created us.  Animals and nature’s edifices are also God’s creation, but neither has the understanding of God or a desire to share forever the presence of himself.  Without this inborn sustenance of God in our human makeup we too would have no reason to search for an unknown deity which becomes real as the essence of the Holy Spirit awakens within the finite mind of man that the only way to find God is through his Son, Jesus Christ.  That premise is the one grace that God planted within humans at their inception when he created them.

We might ponder the reality of that unknown seed that God planted in the makeup of man.  But the fact that even from the earliest species of humanity there existed a knowledge of something beyond their human lives that was calling them to that something we now call God.  There is no doubt that from the first sign of the created species called man that there was always the need to search for and discover within our mind that the something we look for an answer to is the Creator we know as God.    

The call of Abraham (Gn 12: 1 ff) was not just a chance that perhaps he would on his own just pick-up his belongings, the herds of sheep, and his wife and children and move to an unknown land.  Somewhere in the very depth of his unconscious knowledge was this earlier planting of his desire to find God, although not certain to name him until God proved himself to Abraham that he indeed is God.  The birth of historical testimony that there is a reality of a deity that we call “God Forever” is now the very answer of our God preparing to instill in human history the plan of God to share his Love and mercy for his wayward children.  That plan is called; Son of God, Jesus Christ, Incarnate, sacrificed for the sin of man, and risen to everlasting life.  

We can all write about or promote through preaching that Jesus came as the answer to the destruction of sin’s hold on humanity.  However, we find that not enough emphasis on the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, who constantly guides us to live in Christ, is the one nourishment that our souls are famished without the Yes from our hearts and a knowledge that without Christ on our minds while he searches for hearts that yearn for his presence, we too will find a starvation diet that will deny our entrance into God’s Beatific Vision. 

Too often the exuberance we all had before our First Holy Communion has taken a holiday without any desire to find that path back to a belief that there was something we yearned for, but cannot identify what that was. 

Blaming the apostasy that is currently bombarding the faith we once held as necessary for our finding God is not the total culprit.  It lies deeper than that and the one answer is called Satan with his plan to defeat God’s promise of forgiveness by telling us that God is a lier.  

The manner which has promoted this discouraging emphasis on forgiveness through Christ’s Passion has given a false pretense to Christ, the Holy Spirit’s promise to keep us safe from evil entities, and the absence of our Father from all human maladies has become the mantra of a demonic entity that promises to remove us from our Holy God’s presence.   

Why do I and perhaps others keep placing this reality for you to read?  Simply, we have been told that there is no other way to the Father except through Jesus Christ. (Jn 14: 6).  That being the case, to withhold the truth that was already planned by the Holy Trinity before time is to reject the words they spoke  when they agreed on; “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  (Gn 1: 26).  Within this short sentence is the love of a God to create man, watch the evil of Satan try to remove this virtue of love, and send himself (in the presence of Christ) to redeem his creation.  That is the Truth that Pilate could not comprehend.  (Jn 18: 38).  Allowing these current attributes of shutting God out of our civil lives and refusing to believe in the Passion of Christ that will complete the total forgiveness from God, we too will ask what Truth means.  Then it will be too late.  

The Old Testament attests that God is the source of all truth.  His Word is truth.  His Law is truth.  His “faithfulness endures to all generations,”  Since God is “:true,” the members of his people are called to live in the truth.  (CCC 2465). 

Before Pilate, Christ proclaims that he “has come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.”  The Christian is not to be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord.”  In situations that require witness to the faith, the Christian must profess it without equivocation, after the example of St. Paul before his judges.  We must keep “a clear conscience toward God and toward men.”  (CCC 2471).  

Herein is the very need to reiterate the need to not remain silent about Jesus Christ.

Ralph B. Hathaway