What Would It Take To Make You A Saint?

What would it take to make you a saint?

It is a simple question, really. And our answers say so much about us.

“I would have to be a better person…”

“I would have to clean up my language, and stop drinking so much, and work harder at…”

“I would have to go to church much more and give more to support God’s mission…”

What would it take to make you a saint?

So often we think that in order to be a saint or to be loved and accepted by God we need to be something other than what we already are. We carry the burden of our daily lives, our jobs, our obligations, our plans for the future, and our guilt about the past and sometimes wonder what it would be like to be out from under pressure of it all. If we could finally get it all right, we would have charmed lives and worthy of sainthood.

But that is not being a saint.

Being a saint is about living lives filled with the grace of God. Part of living a grace-filled life is a decision to embrace God’s undying love for us. Love for us that is shared no matter what with absolutely everyone.  We don’t earn God’s love or God’s favor with our good works. God’s lovingkindness was with us before we even considered joining in Gods mission in the world. Everything that we do is in response to God’s love – not an obligation to be repaid or a privilege to be earned.

Are you aware of God’s love for you and are you living your life in response to that love?   

They lived not only in ages past; there are hundreds of thousands still.

The world is bright with the joyous saints who love to do Jesus' will.

You can meet them in school, on the street, in the store, in church, by the sea, in the house next door;

they are saints of God, whether rich or poor,  and I mean to be one too.

--Lesbia Scott