On the Sanctified's role in God's plan
From LanceaSanctum
Night. The city sleeps. Screams rip the silence to shreds, squealing tires spray gravel and smoke into the air, and armed, violent characters flood the streets and alleyways. Pervasive darkness, overwhelming evil, and villains too despicable to name compel the cowering masses to cry for God’s salvation. Isn’t this the scene that we are all compelled to enact night after night for the duration of our damnation?
Why in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, do mortals insist on believing that good will triumph, and in the end evil will be destroyed? They rest on the foundation of their Christian faith. Deep in every mortal heart there is a need and desire to believe in a world where God’s righteousness triumphs over evil. And frequently, we are required to remind them of that belief.
From humble beginnings, greatness emerges. Longinus, a simple soldier, made into so much more when he accepted his role in God’s great plan. We often spend months, years, decades engaged in simple, ordinary, and boring activities in preparation for the day that we might be called to the extraordinary role that God has for us. We have already had extraordinary events happen in our lives, through our embrace and acceptance of faith we were started on this both sacred and damned path. We would not have power of our own, but for what God has given us in sacred trust to fulfill his great plan. And it is our faith that allows his power to flow through us. True faith is in doing what is needful even when there is risk involved. True faith is going out night after night and displaying for mortals the reality of their damnation should they give in to greed, violence, prejudice and injustice. Perhaps this is too great a trust to be given to one person, but collectively we can be the wolves that drive God’s sheep back to their fold.
Sum Sanctus.
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