{"id":2976,"date":"2021-02-14T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:15:28","slug":"to-believe-in-god-without-seeking-special-evidence1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"To believe in God without seeking special evidence1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our whole life is interwoven with various symbols, signs to us; they serve for better communication. For example, when I tell you, ‘If I give you hand sign when you stand up, \u201cyou will wait for this sign, and when I’ll show him, you’ll know you have to stand up. If anyone came later, already he will not understand it. Or the neighbor will tell the neighbors, ‘If they have milk, then ring me at the gate. \u201d In this way, people create signs and signs that they knew what or when to do it. Both of these sides of the movement understand and expect him.<\/h2>\n
The Gospel of St. Mark describes Jesus in confrontation with the Pharisees. They come to him, not to listen to him but to argue with him. Nevertheless, that they have seen many miracles, they ask him for a unique sign from heaven, and St. Mark adds, “that they might tempt him” (Mark 8:11). In the biblical understanding, temptation does not mean seducing someone as it is in today’s performance, but to be tested to test or improve man’s qualities, as God tested Abraham, for example. But it also means evil intent to point out his weaknesses or lead him to do wrong, as he did the devil in the wilderness when Jesus fasted. Even today, many people say, “I won’t believe it until I see it.” they will see, looking for various rational explanations, just so that they do not have to acknowledge God’s existence so that they do not have to change their comfortable life. And so let’s ask together with Jesus: “Why does this generation ask for a sign” (Mark 8:12)?<\/h2>\n
Why do we long to see various miracles, healing, unusual phenomena? To strengthen your faith or out of sheer curiosity? After all, God surrounds us with different things everyday signs, such as the birth of a new life, waking up in the morning, a new day, the Church itself, which lasts 2,000 years and as the pinnacle of the Eucharist. God gives us many “obvious things” that are not so obvious. And you do that often we will only realize when we lose them. Every sunrise is, for me, proof that God loves me. Every Holy Mass signifies that God is staying with us for all days, until the end of the world (cf. Mt 28:20). The Flemish writer Zimmerman described the old mentality in one of his short stories a virgin waiting to be asked for her hand, but not to get married, but she could refuse with great dignity. At that moment, she felt like a great lady.\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Sometimes we are not also tempters of God, who are not concerned with his glory, but by cultivating your own prestige, your ego, which can boast of everything has seen and tried, and who is not interested in improving his life at all? It is possible to ask for a miracle, but on the condition that it is God’s will and will serve, it is for my salvation or someone else’s. But let’s not wait for weird signs. They always remain special. We’d better open our eyes and praise God for the little things he gives us. And let’s ask: What about me? Do you mean lord What sign are you giving me? And not for a moment let us not doubt that God desires to answer these questions. He wants this mutual silent dialogue further developed and led us into a more profound truth about ourselves and our place in the world. Franz Werfel, the author of the famous book Singing about Bernadette, wrote: \u201cWho wants it to believe, does not need any signs or evidence. He who does not want to think will not even a thousand pieces of evidence. “<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"