Unbelief in Christ – Amazing Betrayal

Imagine this situation: you are sitting in a car or bus with faulty brakes. You are sitting waiting to die, and you don’t know it. If you knew it or suspected it, you would certainly do something to prevent it, forestall it. You wouldn’t have sat down and got into that vehicle until this serious fault of bad brakes had been corrected.

The lives of those who have refused to believe in Christ should be changed as soon as possible because they are just like those who get into a vehicle without brakes. The words of the Gospel warn us of this: ‘He who despises me and does not accept my words has his judge.’ (Jn 12:48).

Therefore, those who have lost faith or have not believed in Christ are critical because they do not realize how their eternal happiness is threatened. They need to understand that those who have refused to believe in Christ should seek to change their position. We see how many ways God is trying to show man how his life is threatened, not only here on earth, but especially his eternal life. Unbelief in Christ is also unbelief in God, and God wants to save all men.
St. Paul says that God created us without us, but only with our help can they save us. That is why He sent His Son to teach us everything we need to do to be saved. Jesus taught us two gifts that we must not overlook: that we have a reason, which makes us the pinnacle of all creation, and free will, which must cooperate with a defense even in the salvation of our souls.

But let us also note today that God allows trials to come upon us. Not to lose us, but to make us even more deserving of his love. That is why he sometimes blinds our eyes and hardens our hearts so that we can then touch the bottom of God’s grace. Therefore, let us rightly understand that the gift of God can also be such conditions in our lives:

Man is dissatisfied with himself when:
– he experiences disappointment
– he feels the sickness of his body or his neighbor
– experiencing the death of a loved one
– feels temptation of body and soul

God does not allow this to destroy man even more, or because He is not interested in His creation, but on the contrary. In our faith, we should rightly understand the words of the old Christian proverb: “Whom the Lord God loves, He visits with a cross.” We should realize this before any of the trials above of faith come upon us.

None of us can say that we have not yet encountered difficulties in our faith. We must realize that the Lord wants to test us again and again, on the one hand, and the other hand, that here on earth, we may serve out the penalties of the sins of unbelief which we have committed, or that by working on ourselves we may win a higher degree of glory for ourselves.

But let us also be aware that through our efforts, sufferings, and trials, through our example, He wants to win other brothers and sisters to His side. For more than one Christian’s right attitude towards God, when seen by indifferent and unbelieving people, prompts them to reflect and contemplate. How many people have found their way to Christ based on the well-lived life of a believing Christian!

Therefore, let us not accept the trials which the Lord sends upon us as a punishment, but as a grace that the Lord Jesus wants to cooperate with us and that He has chosen us from among many to complete in our own body what is still lacking in the body of Christ. This is how St. Paul mentions it in his letter.
We realize that not believing in God’s help, in His protection, or in His reward for all we do for the salvation of our souls and our neighbors would be a great insult and betrayal of the love of Jesus. Jesus did not love us only when He spoke of His passion and death. Jesus loved us even when He said: “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). This means for us today that when we genuinely take heart, we will see God in Jesus, and so we will pass from darkness to light, from death to life.

None of us wishes to sit in a car that has terrible brakes. We fear for our physical life. Therefore, let our attitude to faith also be more serious, more responsible so that we may not know one day the disappointment that could come very quickly, unforeseen.