“Abraham departed his land carrying a promise: his entire journey
is a going toward this promise. The way he walked his path is a model for how
we ought to walk our own. God called Abraham, a single person, and that one
person makes an entire people. If we go to the Book of Genesis, to the
beginning, to the creation, we find that God creates the stars, creates the
plants, creates the animals, creates the these and the that’s and the others
... But He creates Man in the singular, one. God always speaks in the singular
to us, because He has created in his image and likeness. And God speaks in the
singular. He spoke to Abraham and gave him a promise and invited him to come
out of his land. We Christians have been called one-by-one: none of us is
Christian by pure chance. No one.”
“God accompanies us, God calls us by name, God promises us we will
have a line of heirs. This is something of 'the surety' of being a
Christian. It is not a coincidence; it is a calling - a calling that keeps us
going. Being a Christian is a calling of love, friendship, a calling to become
a child of God, brother of Jesus, to become fruitful in the transmission of
this calling to others, to become instruments of this call. There are so many
problems, so many problems, there are difficult times, Jesus had many of His
own! But always with that confidence: ‘The Lord has called me. The Lord is like
me. The Lord has made me a promise”
“Someone will say, ‘Father, I am a sinner’, but we all are, as
everyone knows. The problem is: sinners, go forward with the Lord, go forward
with that promise that He has made us, with the promise of fruitfulness, and
tell others, recount to others others that the Lord is with us, that the Lord
has chosen us and that He does not leave us alone, not ever! That certainty of
the Christian will do us good. May the Lord give us, all of us, this desire to
move forward, which Abram had, in the midst of all his problems: to go forward
with the confidence that He who called me, who promised me so many beautiful
things, is with me.”
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