The Closer we get to Christ's Passion, "the more shall each one feel the attacks from evil"

The Closer we get to Christ’s Passion, "the more shall each one feel the attacks from evil”

Here it comes, again, it will surround each one of us with nothing but promises of pleasure, power to control others, and a blind eye to the cross on Good Friday.  

It occurred to Abraham when the Lord asked him to sacrifice his son.  (Gn 22: 1 - 19).  Out of obedience Abraham followed God’s will; leading all of us to the Passion of Christ.  God wasn’t allowing an evil occurrence to show his majesty but a holy compassion that each of us must also prepare for the salvation from sin.  Isaac was the exact symbol of what Christ is about to become in several days.  The evil would be the rejection of God’s will to accept suffering without the shout of; “No, not me this time.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you were not faithful to me in showing forth my sanctity before the Israelites, you shall not lead this community into the land I will give them.”  (Nm 20: 12).  There may occur periods of time when the very commands that the Lord asks of us will appear too rigorous to obey just now.  

God, the Father, asked his Son to accept the only solution to bring salvation to mankind and for just an instance Jesus felt intimidated when he asked, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not as I will, but as you will  (Mt 26: 39).  

Each of us may find the very requirement to avoid what could be the evil of sin in our life at the most crucial moment when the demon of doubt will place before us the choice to follow his temptation of rejecting Christ’s example or repeating, “Lord if this be your will, I will accept it.”

Our Gerhsemane is approaching and it may hit us when we least expect it.

Ralph B. Hathaway