Our
Easter Season theme of “belief” continues today! Whoever believes in the Son has
eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, and the wrath of
God remains upon him.
We have an insight into St.
John’s theology in this one sentence. “Belief” is an “act of obedience” to God
– who alone enables anyone to believe at all. Belief that Jesus is the Divine
Son of God cannot originate in us, it must originate in God, be revealed to us
by him, and then made an object of our acknowledgment of it and acceptance of
it: this is true “belief” – and this is what the “obedience” to “God revealing”
is all about!
And so, St. John tells us,
those who disobey the Son, disobey all of his revelations and inspirations
which come by way of the Holy Spirit – will not see promised eternal life and
the wrath of God – the wrath that came to Adam and his descendants – remains
upon him.
May we today – during this
highly graced Easter Season – make frequent acts of “obedience of belief” in
Jesus as Son of God – and we will be rewarded with much consolation in our
daily lives, and we will be storing credit for when it will be needed at the
end of our lives when God will look into our hearts to see if “any are wise, if
any seek Him, if any have true, simple and loving belief in His Son” which has moved them to selfless acts of
self-sacrifice for the good of others!
You
believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord; blessed are
those who have not seen, but still believe!
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