2825. “Although he was a Son, [Jesus] learned obedience through what he suffered.”104How much more reason have we sinful creatures to learn obedience – we who in him have become children of adoption. We ask our Father to unite our will to his Son’s, in order to fulfill his will, his plan of salvation for the life of the world. We are radically incapable of this, but united with Jesus and with the power of his Holy Spirit, we can surrender our will to him and decide to choose what his Son has always chosen: to do what is pleasing to the Father.105
In committing ourselves to [Christ], we can become one spirit with him, and thereby accomplish his will, in such wise that it will be perfect on earth as it is in heaven.106
Consider how Jesus Christ] teaches us to be humble, by making us see that our virtue does not depend on our work alone but on grace from on high. He commands each of the faithful who prays to do so universally, for the whole world. For he did not say “thy will be done in me or in us,” but “on earth,” the whole earth, so that error may be banished from it, truth take root in it, all vice be destroyed on it, virtue flourish on it, and earth no longer differ from heaven.107
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
321. What are the sacraments at the service of communion and mission?
69. How do the soul and body form a unity in the human being?
232. What is the relationship between the sacraments and everlasting life?
132. What does the Ascension mean?
439. Why does the Decalogue constitute an organic unity?
591. Why pray “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”?
341. What new element did Christ give to Matrimony?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
What do Daniel’s visions of the ram and the goat in Daniel 8 mean?
What does the Bible teach about God’s final judgment, and what does Malachi 3:18 tell us about it?
What does the Bible teach us about asserting personal identity within a loving relationship?
What is the role of spiritual gifts in building up the church, according to Ephesians 4:7-16?
What is the role of the law in the Old Testament, according to Galatians 3:10-14?
