Point out the importance of God’s grace in human life.

During the last week of Easter, we will discuss one of the six truths of our religion every day. As an echo of the biggest holiday of the year. 

Man is sinful by nature. It is said unnaturally and harshly in a way. Original sin caused this catastrophe in man. As a result, every person is bound to sin, from which God’s grace frees us. Our Heavenly Father loves us infinitely and does not want even one of his little ones to perish. “For God so loved the world that he gave him only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

The explanatory dictionary uses the term grace to refer to many terms, but the word mercy is undoubtedly one of the most famous. So we can say that our Heavenly Father has mercy on us so that we can achieve salvation. God’s grace is the only cure for the weakness of human nature. Man alone cannot do anything, and therefore he is forced to rely on the Lord if he wants to be saved. Freedom was enough for a person to sin, but to be able to return to the realm of justice, he needs the help of grace, which he receives from God’s mercy. In his infinite love, God gives us two main graces in the fight against sin: helping grace and sanctifying grace. Each of us knows St. Augustine, a zealous teacher of the doctrine of grace. He very often emphasized the essence of grace, always saying: “Grace is free, it does not depend on our merits, it was already before our merits. And this is also when it is offered to us as a consequence of our actions.” Nevertheless, you will surely agree with me that grace is a gift of God because our actions are done from God’s initiative. It is not only a gift of God to man, but it is an undeserved gift of God to a person who does not value him so much. The very graces that help or sanctify have the goal of perfecting a person. To build in him a greater resistance to sin. Helping grace comes from the very action in a person. It consists in the fact that God helps a person by enlightening his reason for knowing his supernatural focus Simply put, God will enable man to know his focus for eternity. Sanctifying grace rests on participation in God’s knowledge and love. Simply put, God reveals his perfection and mercy.

Man has his full meaning only in the Creator. He creates man for himself, so that man finds in his Creator the perfection of God’s image. God’s love for us is great to such an extent that he offers us his grace out of God’s motive. We are sinful and sinfulness closes our perception of God. Man’s sinfulness is his essential tragedy. And why? In such a state, a person often finds a replacement in time. Only God can raise a person to himself. To raise him from the dust of his wretchedness and sinfulness, so that man can be an active child of God. What makes a child a child? I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s undoubtedly innocence. Innocence consists in trusting God to the fullest extent possible. Man did not deserve the status of a child of God. Why? Through his sin, he lost God’s favor. We can say that a person in the position of God’s child is from God. God is infinitely gracious and merciful. He is not interested, in a man being outside his heavenly homeland. All supernatural good is a gift of God’s grace. Saint Augustine says: “Before the first parents acted against God’s will, they loved God and God loved them.” Despite the fact that our first parents had an animal body, they did not feel anything in it that disobeyed them. human perfection, the man sold himself to sin. This sale to sin has far-reaching consequences for mankind. Man lost the graces that come from the Heavenly Father. But the sacrifice of Jesus Christ won us all graces back. He redeemed us and secured for us the plan of our salvation, which is already half fulfilled. It is up to us how we handle our sinfulness. It is just that we deserve a just punishment from God for sin. We, humans, can only acquire righteousness by overcoming sin with the help of God’s grace. Saint Augustine sacrificed his whole life for the doctrine of grace and its defense. He cared that people did not fall into delusion and begin to justify their wrong actions. It is the duty of every Christian to ask God for grace. Only the person who is no stranger to mercy can have the right to ask God for mercy.

At the end of the civil war of the North against South America, the fate of South America was decided. President Abraham Lincoln’s advisors urged him to punish the Southerners for all the bloodshed they had committed and proposed various punishments. The President listened to them attentively, and when they had finished, he said in a humble voice, “Is it possible to destroy my enemies when I plan to make them my friends?” replied the President, who, instead of revenge, made a generous plan of restoration.

Of course, this example has its flaws, but it tries to show an unconventional way of getting rid of enemies. Every child of God should naturally distribute graces around him out of love and selflessly. No one has the right to ask the Heavenly Father for grace and mercy who cannot be merciful himself. Let’s try to make our life coincide with God’s will. God’s will represents life according to the gospel. We have reason and free will at our disposal. But we must also take into account our weakness, which is manifested in our sinfulness. Despite our ingratitude, our God offers us weapons against sin. Resistance to sin is a very effective weapon. Resilience must be nurtured by prayer and sincerity to God. To be able to resist sin, God’s grace is needed. After all, we all want to achieve salvation. I wish you to be open to the action of God’s grace and to develop sufficient resistance against sin