Our choices have consequences. This is a universal truth that we all understand. If I choose to step in front of a moving car I choose to get hit and likely severely injured if not killed. Yet when it comes to the spiritual life we often operate as if there aren’t consequences tied to our choices. We approach sin as if it is no big deal. We delay going to confession or even resist fully turning to Jesus and embracing all of his teachings. How many Catholics use artificial contraception, even though that is expressly forbidden by the Church, yet act like it is fine? In AD 70 Jerusalem saw the consequence of their failure to turn to Jesus, a consequence he predicted decades before. As we read the words of Jesus let us ask for the wisdom to understand the choices we have made in the spiritual life and what the consequences of those choices are.
Our Choices Have Consequences
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