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Hey you. I see you. Yeah you.
What’s your relationship with Jesus Christ like?
Oh, no need to look around, this is indeed a Catholic blog. I know, it’s not a question that’s asked often enough around here.
Seriously – take some time to think about it. How would you describe your relationship with Him? Which relationship in your life would you compare it to? A parent? A sibling? Some other relative? A close friend? An acquaintance? A stranger?
I ask this, because today we come to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection – HALLELUJAH (ALLELUIA?)! – the day He conquers death, so that we may have eternal life in heaven with God. Doesn’t that sound nice?
Except if we don’t have a relationship with God, does spending eternity with God really have all that much meaning?
We all have a relationship with God – even if you don’t believe in Him, there’s a relationship (just a really bad one). My relationship with God I would say is pretty good. Not great, and not where it could/should be – but pretty good. I say that not because I work for the church, or have been involved a lot, but because I am working on it daily. Some days, unfortunately, are better than others. Some days I feel the call to stop and pray, or to help someone, or to read Scripture, but I won’t do it. I’ll reason that I’m too tired, or that I am just done with the day, or that I have somewhere I need to be. But those are all just excuses. Most days, I do take time to pray, help people, and read Scripture (they’re just examples, there’s so much more we could do in our relationship with God), but probably not as much as I really could.
Slowly but surely, however, I am doing more. I keep on trying.
A famous prophet once said, “Do or do not, there is no try.”
Far from the truth these words are.
In order for you to do something, that means (in a Yoda-ish type of way) that it could get done, that at some point in our lives, we can be finished with it. But there is no end to it (unless you count death, which I’m not right now, so don’t bring it up). We keep working on it, keep trying to grow closer. There is no closest that we could get. There’s always more. There’s always something new or different we could try to do to grow closer to God.
So on this joyous day, take some time to reflect on your relationship with God, and how you can try to make it better.
