Friendship, Sin, and Happiness

One of the greatest joys life has to offer is Friendship.

Friendship is two people who are united in wanting, pursuing and enjoying the same good thing.

The better the friend and the higher the good you both love the greater will be your happiness. And the greatest friendship is with Jesus because we want and pursue and enjoy infinite truth, beauty and goodness with him. 

What does Jesus love? The will of the Father. We experience the will of the Father in two ways:

By his design for the human person which is expressed by the Ten Commandments and the Moral Law of the Catholic Church.

The second way we experience the will of God is through His Providence by which He guides all things for good. 

If we reject these by sin or rebel against them by complaining, then we no longer want what Jesus wants – that God’s will be done. If we no longer care about that, then we separate ourselves from our friend – Jesus.

If we don’t feel close to Jesus, it might be because we are sinning or complaining, by actively going against God’s design for the human person or complaining about the way he allows the universe to run. 

Then how do we restore our friendship with Jesus if we are guilty of sinning or complaining?

First by the sacrament of confession where we tell Jesus we are sorry, we ask for his forgiveness and we decide to amend our life – to live according to God’s design and his moral law.

Second by accepting all that God allows in our life with gratitude.