Don’t take it literally, for you may find yourself wondering on how this phrase could ever be so possible. I shall begin with the saying, ‘Nobody’s perfect.’ We are all sinners in this world full of ups and downs, grace and temptation, good and evil. The judgment is within us on how we would respond to these matters whether we head towards God’s mission in fulfilling His love and salvation, or the opposite one.
Extreme faith. Extreme faith. Nowadays, we might be into reality that we couldn’t internalise the ‘requirements’ in acquiring this faith as some of it might be impossible to work on. What does it really take to be able to reach the standards that this kind of faith requires? Does it mean dying on the cross as to what Jesus did to save us? Devoting our whole lives in reaching out to the poor like what St. Hannibal performed? Dying for the sake of others’ safety executed by St. Pedro Calungsod?
The truth is, faith is not a subject to be studied in order to achieve A grades or attain high marks, but a spirit that each and one of us possess. There’s no need to measure the hugeness of our trust in God and our love for Him because they’re not about the number of religious songs we sing, or the spiritual talks we’ve heard, or the Bible verses we’ve come to memorise. They are about what those songs, verses and talks mean to us, and to our whole being. It’s a matter of our response to God’s calling towards His mission and the way its significance brought us to where we are now, and how we never stopped trying to show our love and faith in Him though a couple of times we’ve failed. Faith is more of a lifetime defiance that we’ve come to face particularly in times of failure and downfalls. And now we realise that that ‘extreme’ faith means much more than the word itself. We just have to find it deep within our hearts, buried beneath sins, sorrow, hatred and depression – and that’s our lifetime duty; a mission that aims to find the ‘extreme faith’ and its importance in our ‘yes’ to His calling.
- Inspired by a conversation with a follower of God +