BishopBarron|你相信我能做得到吗？
2017-08-13 21:08 阅读量:3944
原文|Bishop Barron
翻译|Carrie
朋友们，在今天的福音中，我们看到一个魔鬼缠身的男孩，而门徒却不能治好他。他们问耶稣失败的原因，耶稣说，“由于你们缺少信德；我实在告诉你们：假如你们有像芥子那么大的信德，你们向这座山说：从这边移到那边去！它必会移过去的；为你们没有不可能的事。”
无论如何，你祈祷时必须心怀信德。你有没有注意到耶稣一次又一次地在行奇迹之前对人们说：“你相信我能做得到吗？”玛窦曾说因为人们没有什么信德，所以耶稣不能多行奇迹。
当今很多人，尤其是在医疗部门里，似乎可以像耶稣那样救死扶伤，原因就是他们有着纯粹的信德。缺乏信德仅仅是我们问题的一部分？我们让怀疑的态度占了上风；我们因为对天主有所要求而略感尴尬，或者我们深信天主遥不可及、跟我们的生活只有含糊不清的联系。然而天主远远超乎想象。
Friends, today in our Gospel we meet a boy driven mad by a demon and the disciples could not heal him. They asked Jesus why they had failed, and he said, "Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
In all circumstances, you have to pray with faith. Have you noticed how Jesus, time and again, says to people before working a miracle, "Do you believe I can do this?" Once, Matthew tells us, Jesus was unable to perform many miracles because he was met with so little faith among the people.
Lots of people today, especially in the healing ministry, seem able to reproduce what Jesus did, precisely because of the purity of their faith. Is part of our problem simply a lack of faith? We allow our skepticism to get the better of us; we're just a little embarrassed by asking God for things, or we're convinced that he is a distant power only vaguely connected to our lives. But God is far greater than that.
