Our Incapable Capacity In Christ!

Just got into Texas and listening to Third Day with the top down!  Praise the Lord!  This is our last day on the road with the Popemobile.  The interns have put on 5320 miles in grand total.  With fly miles, that is probably doubled.  So all in all, I think it is fair to say that we got the WORD out!

Last night, we stay at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans.  These next couple of days we will be staying at St. Antony of Padua Parish with Deacon Michael Mims.  This evening we will be doing some inner city ministry with some Lifeteen missionaries.  By Friday morning, we'll be flying back to Birmingham to visit EWTN and go to a Josh Garrels concert and take the drive back to Wisconsin in the Sportwagen which is waiting for us at the airport.

It is very easy to underestimate the capacity of what we are able to accomplish with Jesus Christ.  We, on our own,  are not capable of much, but with Jesus Christ we have the ability to increase our capacity to do the work of God.  Before leaving on the trip, there are some doubts and some hesitations.  Our confidence is not really there yet, but in time as we share the Gospel with others, we, ourselves have an increase of faith.

Now as we travel to our final destination, I see how our incapable capacity that come from Christ has feed us, nourished us, enlivened us and empowered us to realize what we can do WITH HIM!  A shared faith is a faith that is emboldened and increased.  A faith that is not shared is a faith that become dead very quickly.  Our capability to hold a high threshold of capacity is decreased and we flounder and begin to die inside.

As one who has the FREEDOM to make a evangelization road tour like this, I can certainly contend that it has been a tremendous blessing to my priesthood.  It reminds me of Mission of the Redeemers claim that to go out is a fundamental requirement in the life of a priest to give HOPE and a higher capacity to love.  So let's get out there!  Let's break out of our comfortable and routine modes of living.  Let's stop thinking that what we are doing is so important that we come up with excuse after excuse of not sharing the GOOD NEWS of the Gospel!  This is no time be afraid of the Gospel!  It is no time to hide it under a bushel basket!  Faith is meant to be shared!