SO GOOD QUOTES

We say that we have faith in God, but anything happens, we get worried, we get anxious. We just said we have faith in God. We just said that He resurrected from the dead, and everything is in His hands. In 50 days, we’ve been doing nothing but saying that He is risen from the dead, and He trampled death by His death. Death, which is the greatest enemy, nothing is higher than death. Any issue happens, we get scared. Why did God Leave me? Why did God allow this to happen in my life? So we say words and our actions don’t necessarily line up. This lesson from today’s Gospel is: your faith and your works have to match together. Is faith enough or is works enough? St. James tells us that you’re saved by your faith, but you show your faith by your works. “I believe that God is in control.” But what’s the true test? When something happens, Am I in peace, or am I worried? Am I anxious? Am I regretful? I can’t fall asleep. I’m always going to Abouna or to people saying, “help me, I don’t know what to do.”… If we believe that God is in control, if it’s good or it’s bad, it’s still God in control, who said that something bad is always bad, maybe something bad is an opportunity. Maybe something bad.

—Fr. Benjamin Girgis