The Testing Wisdom 2:12-20 Mk. 9:30-37
Faith is not for the Faint of heart!
Because it is always being tested.
How does one know if one has Faith?
Is it by going to Church?
Many people go to church and just sit there without participating or praying.
Is it when one is Baptized?
Many people are baptized and never darken the door of the church again.
Is it if one says the rosary?
Many people can say a rosary and yet never meditate on its mysteries.
The way one knows if one has Faith,
Is when it is tested.
The Son of Man had to be handed over to men and be killed.
Because this was the ultimate test
Walking on water is one thing.
But dying on the cross is another.
By dying on the cross,
There is no doubt.
If Jesus was faking who He was,
He would have eventually walked away.
No one who was pretending to be the Son of God
Would have played it out to the end
Through the betrayal, the trial, the scourging, the Crowning with thorns
And the agonizing Crucifixtion.
If He did not believe Who He said He was.
And so the world and the wicked
Want to know if our Faith is for real or if we are faking it.
So the world tests us as it tested Jesus.
It slaps us on the cheek with insults and wants to see if we turn it.
It persecutes us, imprisons us and even kills us, to see if we really do love our enemies.
The world wants to see if we love one another as Jesus
Commanded us or do we fight and bicker among ourselves like everyone else?
Our Faith is tested in small, everyday ways,
To sometimes big and difficult ones.
Our Faith is a daily carrying of the cross like Jesus.
But if we do then we will rise like Him,
And rise we must.
Above the ways of the world and its greed and lusts, and anger and jealousy and lack of forgivenesses.
For then we will know the True and Endless Joy of the Resurrection which no one and nothing can ever take from us.
And the world will know that we are for REAL!
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