Life without faith. Do we realize what faith enriches us with?

Is it easier for a believer or an unbeliever? We don’t even realize how many situations we are faced with every day. Believers and non-believers must believe. Where whom and where we believe what. The event of the gospel, which has just ended, directly introduces us to the crowd behind Jesus. We become spectators of the Gospel story, even more. We can be in the center of the action and hear Jesus’ words with our own ears: “..daughter, your faith has made you well…” (Mt 9:22).

It is impossible not to notice her supernatural faith, which Jesus points to as the reason for the healing: “Daughter, your faith has made you well.” It consisted of two actions: First, you made up your mind, and said in your spirit: “As soon as I touch his clothes, I will be healed.” (Mt 9:21). That was an act of reason. And then they will work, an act of faith, a deed. As she made her way to the center of the crowd and touched the robe. It was not banality. She did so, despite the prohibition of the law. According to him, her touch made others unclean. It could have had unpleasant consequences. This also requires faith. How is it that the healing did not take place at the moment when the woman said to herself “if I touch?…” An act of will was also necessary. And why was even the act of touching itself not healing? After all, so many touched Jesus and power did not come from him. .. Supernatural faith is always about cooperation: human reason and human will with God’s grace. And if natural faith is based on trust in experience, agreement or technique, supernatural faith is based on a much stronger foundation – on the authority of God. I believe because God said. Experience can disappoint, there is usually a malfunction in the technique, the agreement is broken. God – absolute Truth, is infallible. He cannot will, think, speak otherwise than the most perfect. In this lies the certainty of faith. Perhaps out of habit we follow Jesus in a crowd. We listen to his words almost every day. Maybe we can be excited by the singing of a crowded church or the idyllic idyll of church holidays. Is that enough for us?

Why is there no healing in so many encounters with Christ? How to heal unresolved disputes with relatives, neighbors… To heal a relationship with an angry sibling or friend. Can we take two steps to heal? So simple and challenging at the same time. When we can realize with reason: if I get closer to him, I get closer to Jesus; we have taken the first step of faith. I believe, Lord, that you are in him, in her. Let us recognize his face in a sympathetic person, even in the one who does not remind us of Jesus. Christ is also in a sinful man, and he suffers. Do I bypass him? The second step is the deed, the very touching of Christ in the neighbor. It can take a variety of forms. Love for Jesus, whom I saw in a person, can be inventive..