God’s plan for us

Living a Christian life is not an easy task. Deciding to provide a witness for the image of a Christian requires that we intimately know the One we represent. To help us understand what is asked of us, let us turn to “Caritas in Veritate,” the encyclical letter by the late Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict states “Each person finds his good by adherence to God’s plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth, he becomes free.” The Gospel of Luke’s account of Jesus’ time in the Garden of Gethsemane states Jesus, in his terror, sweat blood, and yet he embraced the plan God had for him and he fulfilled it through the grace given to him in his most urgent hour.

God did not abandon Jesus, but stayed with him completely, so that Jesus was able to proclaim in his dying words from the cross the opening line of Psalm 22, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” The psalm ends with the