I recently was asked a question that is perplexing. Someone in passing posed this question, "Father, what if we are wrong?"
What if we are wrong? What if all this about God is false, made up, make believe, counterfeit?
Then what?
It is a good question. It is a question that each us probably ask ourselves, often if not daily. What if we are wrong?
So what is the answer?
Simply put. The answer is that the question has no merit. We as followers, as disciples, as Christians, do not have to be right or wrong. The burden of proof is not on us; the burden of proof is on God.
Our Faith is not centered on us. Our Faith is not about what we created or imagined.
As St. Peter reminds us, "the reason for our hope" is rooted in the reality that Faith and Religion is not man made, it is not about speculation, it is only about revelation.
The reason of our hope finds merit in what God has revealed. And for two thousands years this deposit of faith has been guarded, and passed down. It has been preserved because it has been lived.
Our problem today is not one of faith; our problem is one of comfort and commitment.
We want it to be comfortable or we rather not commit. We are afraid to commit, to trust what God has revealed. And the less we commit the more doubt we will have.
We want to experience the power of faith with out the commitment of life. And we are left feeling empty. we commit our life to comfort and we suffer the loss of love.
This is why Jesus says in the gospel, "whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me."
He is seeking commitment so that we might experience the true power of love. The spirit, the comforter, is sent to help us look beyond our self to seek the comfort of eternity, thus be empowered, that our life might become an engine of divine love.
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