We are not Alone

Being a Christian is being a member of a family. We were not created to be islands. We were created to be part of a community. We are relationship and social creatures. It is part of our makeup and our nature. We cannot carry out our vocation as Christians by ourselves. That would be a contradiction. The family reflects God’s nature. At the center of God is a loving relationship. God is a trinity, three person’s in one. God’s nature reflects the nature of a family; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As a family is made of love so is God made of love. The love of God is the Holy Spirit which is the love relationship between the Father and the Son. The Son is the Father’s truth and the Holy Spirit is their love. God is not along and neither are we. God’s family nature is the opposite of loneliness. We should also never be alone as it is not good for us. And we are never alone as long as we reach out; reaching to God and to our neighbour. Loneliness is self-centredness as it focuses our attention on ourselves and not on others. God created us to be part of his family, we are his children, and he is our father. The true expression of this family is in heaven when our relationship with God is total. All Christians are born twice. Born once on the physical, material plane into our human family and a second time on the spiritual pane in to God’s family through the sacrament of baptism. We are born again but this time as a child of God; all Christians are our siblings and the Catholic Church our spiritual family on Earth. A physical family can fracture and break but our spiritual family is permanent even unto eternity. When you are baptised you enter the door to life in the Spirit. You are baptised into Christ’s death and Christ’s new life. So being baptised and becoming a member of God’s family actually saves us. Baptism communicates the death of Christ which saves us to us.