It is often said in our society by so called ministers, humanist, positive thinkers and the like that a man will get on if he simply believes in himself.
Believes in himself. What a fascinating and yet complete lunatic thing to say.
Crazy people believe in themselves, in fact they believe in themselves and they do not believe out side of themselves, this is what in fact makes a crazy person, well, not uncrazy.
Not only do crazy people believe in themselves but so do actors who can't act and debtor who can't pay and athletes who can't play. It a false notion that gets one well nowhere.
Belief in onself is what one might considered stymied.
Stymie is a rule in golf that is no longer in effect in the game of golf but as now become effective in life. Stymie is a situation where one player's ball obstructs the line of another player's ball. The other player must hit his ball around the obstruct, without lifting the ball in its way. Thus,t he player had to be creative with his shot, often slicing, drawing or even chipping his ball over the obstruct, the other player's ball. Obviously the advantage goes to the other player.
No matter how much the other person believed in himself, he still was stymied.
Belief in oneself stymies life.
For in fact it isn't belief in oneself that helps a man get along but it is belief outside of himself that gets a person somewhere.
Jesus in the Gospel as he unrolls the scroll and and reads the passage from Isaiah, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captives, recover the sight to the blind, let the oppressed go free, and proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Jesus doesn't believe in himself. He believes in the one who sent him. Jesus gives us someone to believe in outside of ourself.
This is what gets a man along. This is the victory that conquerors the world as St. John says in the first reading, the victory that conquerors the world is our faith. It is faith not in ourselves but in Him who was sent.
Share in the victory, believe in Him, learn to get along and stop being stymied.
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