WORD 2day: 21st October, 2017
Saturday, 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Rom 4:13,16-18; Lk 12: 8-12
Jesus assures us, true faith speaks for itself. We need not hunt for ways and means of explaining and defending our faith; it has to be self evident and self explanatory. We don't need mighty big formulae to hold on to a faith...all we need is the realisation of the constant and unceasing presence of the Lord with us.
When I am convinced of this presence I can hope against hope as Abraham did. Such a faith speaks on my behalf, clarifies things for me and others and acts in my favour in the ultimate analysis.
There is a beautiful insight we hope none of us miss from the readings today, taken together. While Paul speaks of God as one who raises the dead to life and calls to life those which do not as yet exist, Jesus speaks of that one sin that cannot be forgiven, the sin against the Holy Spirit. They both are referring to the same, while the former cites a positive explanation, the latter provides a note of clarification. The sin against the Holy Spirit is the lack of Hope, which is a concrete expression of lack of faith leading to a life that lacks any love! Let nothing perturb you, if you are really a person of faith!
Let our lives be filled with a faith that speaks and acts!
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