Romans 8:26-30 / Luke 13:22-30
One of the easiest topics to start a conversation is to talk about how difficult life is and how tough the times are.
Almost everyone will have a story about financial difficulties and struggles to keep the job and stressful competition.
Under such adverse circumstances and situations, would we still be able to have faith in God and trust that He will provide.
In the gospel, Jesus said that we should enter by the narrow door. In other words, life is about pushing and persisting in our faith.
But of course it is also so easy to give up and start to compromise and to find an easy and quick way out of difficulties and struggles.
Yet from our own experience of our faith and trust in God, we know that difficulties and struggles are actually opportunities for growth and we will see the marvels that God will do for us.
As the 1st reading puts it, we know that by turning to their good, God co-operates with all those who love Him.
So essentially it is about our love for God and believing in how much He loves us.
It is easy to talk about how difficult life is. Yet we must also remember to talk about how loving and caring God is. That will enable us to persist in our faith.