POPE: CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A DAILY STRUGGLE AGAINST TEMPTATION

VATICAN, Pope Francis today said that a Christian life is that of a daily struggle against temptation. The pope made the revelation while inviting the believers during mass to let themselves be drawn by Jesus.

The Pope warned against the temptations that lead us down the wrong path adding that Jesus came to destroy the influence of evil on our hearts.




Commenting upon the end of the Gospel passage which says ‘whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God”’, Francis said that whenever we try to approach God, the unclean spirits try to prevent us from doing so, and “wage a war against us.”

“A Christian life without temptations is not Christian, he said: it is ideological, it is Gnostic, but it is not Christian”.

“That’s why St Paul speaks of Christian life as a struggle: a daily struggle. A fight!” he said: That’s why Jesus came: “to destroy Satan’s empire, the empire of evil”.

“May the Lord give us the grace to know how to discern what is going on in our hearts and to choose the right path upon which the Father draws us to Jesus” he said.