The Relationship - trust beyond everything

WORD 2day - Saturday, 3rd week in Ordinary time

February 1, 2025 - Hebrews 11:1-2,8-19; Mark 4: 35-41

Yesterday the Word instructed us about the relationship that is built by living by faith and today we are called to reflect on the extent to which our faith has to go! We have the great example of Abraham and his entire exprience with God, along with Sarah and Isaac. The household trusted in the Lord, the trusted to the extent that although they died even before they saw the fulfilment of what they were promised, they believed that it would be! That is the relationship, the relationship of trust!

Why are you so frightened? How is it that you have not faith? When Jesus asks this question to the apostles, what he means is exactly this trust, the fruit of faith... a fundamental and practical experience of the relationship that we share with God. When things go wrong, or when nothing goes the way we want, if we can still smile and say to ourselves: Quite, be calm, then we have built a trust in the Lord, for whom nothing is impossible!

Trust is the expression of the relationship; it is the experience of the fruit of the relationship that is developed over a period of time, after concrete and reflected experiences that come together to offer a new meaning to life and all that happens in it. Faith, which is a relationship, is expressed in trust. The Lord who is ever faithful, has trusted us - that is why the Lord has entrusted us with numerous gifts: our life, our vocation, our mission, our people and so on. And do we trust the Lord? How do we plan to express that trust?