“I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete” (John 15:11).
In the words of one of the world’s great psychologists, “Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith.”* To put one’s faith and trust in God who is Love, and to love and to be loved, requires genuine heroism — the courage to embrace certain values as one’s ultimate concern and to take the great leap of faith and stake everything on those values.
Time and again, and in many different ways, Jesus said, “You will recognize by their fruits the persons whose faith and trust in God’s ways brings them into His Kingdom.” You will know them, He said, by the difference this faith and trust has made in the way they live. And because their faith and trust in God has made a difference in the way they live, they are blest, they are happy…
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