Oct 12 Sunday
Should I ask Our Lord to increase my faith?
Like the Apostles in today’s Gospel, we can also find ourselves lacking faith. We might lack faith when we face difficulties, when we lack the means to go on, when we do not find response in the apostolate, and when facing events that we do not know how to interpret from a supernatural point of view.
We need more faith. And faith increases with humility, good deeds, and petition. God knows our needs, and He is ready to give us more light, more grace.
If we live of faith, we shall not be afraid of anything or of anyone. With faith, we will be able to reach and understand things far superior to our natural strength. Nothing is impossible for a person who lives of faith.
Faith is the virtue that reveals to us the true dimension of events and allows us to judge correctly everything that happens around us.
Only with the light of faith and with the meditation on the divine word can we recognize God, always and everywhere. In Him we move and we exist.
We should seek His Will in all events, contemplate Christ in all persons. Only with faith can we judge correctly about the true meaning and value of the temporal realities, in themselves, as well as in relation to the end of man.
Let us imitate the apostles and ask the Lord to have compassion on us and increase our faith.
Everything is possible for one who believes. These are words of Christ. Why don’t you say with the apostles, Increase my faith!
If we live of faith, we will know how to confess it and give true testimony to the world, as the first Christians did.
Only the Lord brings us to the true reality: we are servants, not the Master. Therefore, the glory of our actions belongs only to God. The servant does not add anything of his own.
Thus, we have to be attentive not to rearrange the reality of things, because the desire for their own excellence leads many to seek themselves in everything: in the exercise of their profession, in family life, and in the holiest activities.
Thus, we must examine our intentions carefully in everything we do and not seek our own interests if we want to serve the Lord.
Our human talents are not enough to work for Christ effectively. Our natural capacity is not in relation to the supernatural fruits we seek. Without grace, we will be useless, and with it, we can do everything.
The first thing we must ask is God’s grace and his help, so that our service may be effective. To ask this, we must be aware of being in need. If we are humble, if we walk in the truth, we will realize that we are useless servants and will feel compelled to ask the necessary grace from God for everything we try to accomplish in his service.