In Saint Matthew’s Gospel Jesus
tells us not to worry but to trust in God. As comforting as this advice is, it
is very difficult to follow. It takes a mature and enduring faith.
The Jesuit theologian Father John McMurray wrote that those
who have an immature, religious faith believe something like this:
“Fear not, trust in God, and
the things you are afraid of won’t happen to you.”
But those who possess a mature, enduring faith believe much
more deeply:
“Fear not, trust in God, and
the things you are afraid of may happen to you, but you’ll get through them
with God.”
Mature, enduring faith trusts that no matter what happens, somehow,
someway, somewhere, whether in this life or in the next, God will make us
whole.
The bad things that happen in life are locked in a moment in
time. While we are alive we cannot
see beyond that locked moment; but our immortal souls are timeless. And
somewhere deep in our souls, beyond our fears, beyond our thoughts, our
anxieties and grief, there is an intuitive knowledge that in the end God will
make everything okay. If that weren’t true we wouldn’t be gathering for worship
in our churches.
Let us thank God for the gift of mature and enduring faith.
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Readers
of this blog might enjoy these books by Deacon Lex. Both are available on
Amazon.com:
Just to Follow My Friend: Experiencing God’s Presence in Everyday
Life
Synchronicity as the Work of the Holy Spirit: Jungian Insights for
Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Ministry
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