Faith is all what we need to cast away that fear of uncertainty that looms over oneself. In Mark 11:23-25 Jesus further instructs to forgive when we pray "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, `Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24) Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25) And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."
Transformation in life through faith comes when we give more of ourselves and accepting Him with an open heart. Our life is almost met with trials and tribulations wherein we seek happiness or confide blame to the things or people around us. There are parasites in our life, such as obsessions and addictions, and we are feeding them. They tend to grow into us and sap our energy, causing meaninglessness to our lives.
Prayer bridges that gap and heals those wounds that life has brought forth with it. The mistakes and choices that detour us from God are not to be taken lightly. But failure is seldom fatal and few decisions are final. The moment we veer off on our own from that eternal source, it’s never too late for your return back to your God because he is already contemplating for your return. Through the ‘Parable of the Prodigal Son’, Jesus tells us that even if we go far away from His Heavenly Father, He is so compassionate that He will receive us with open hands when we contemplate our return to Him. Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. Remember, a little prayer with a penitent heart heals you!
'Our heart is restless until it rests in you,' Saint Augustine's saying in the beginning of his Confessions, seems to describe this process of passing through loneliness, through darkness, through death, and coming to repose in life and light and love with prayer. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace” – Mother Teresa. Prayer in itself is a sacrifice as we undergo every soft pleasure that this mortal world provides. Haven’t you noticed that everything in this world gets destroyed in one way or the other? For the living, it’s their soul that will live eternally.
A prayer in silence that is accompanied by fasting is of great strength. When you are drawn towards sin, never lose heart but pray each moment of that temptation for that dark hour to pass and get yourself out of the weakness. Through prayer find in you rest for your restless souls. The body maybe sick and in profound pain, the soul may be at ease in God. When you lose your inner soul, you lose yourself. The writing in the chapter of Mark 8:36 is apt which says “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
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