Author: Jocelyn Soriano

Everybody’s aching. Everybody’s searching for a little bit of comfort and of hope. These days, however, it seems politically incorrect to tell others about your faith, especially when your faith is about Jesus. When you share your faith, it’s as though you’re immediately judging and condemning other people.

But sharing my faith is also sharing my hope. If I truly believe that Jesus has the remedy to this seemingly meaningless existence, why should I not share the answer I have found? Why is it wrong to share the most important thing that ever gave meaning to my life?

Everybody seems to be looking for some kind of relief. And we’re allowed to seek it for as long as we don’t seek it in Jesus. Again, I’d like to ask, “Why?”

Why should I keep to myself something that I believe to be true? If I see souls dying each day, souls that do not know where to turn to, should I not lead them where they can finally be satisfied? Should I not point the way where they can be healed?

I’d like to let others know that we can find in God the kind of happiness that has often eluded us. I’d like to tell the world that even when loved ones die, there is hope that we can meet them again because this life is not yet the end. I’d like to shout out loud that the kind of love we have been searching for can be found in Him who sacrificed His own life so we may not lose ours.

Despite all these, the world seems to say, “Just keep it to yourself.”

But how could I? Do you just keep your bread to yourself even when you see a poor man dying of hunger? Do you keep medicine to yourself even when you see a sick person in pain?

Everyone’s afraid of being judged, and yet it’s so easy to judge those who believe in God. Everyone preaches about tolerance, and yet there is no true freedom for those who see a different kind of Light.

Why must faith in Jesus be quarantined? Why must believers hide behind a mask?

“Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples!’
He answered them, ‘I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.’”
– Luke 19:39-40, WEB-BE

In the Bible, King David was the only man referred to as the man after God’s own heart. When we read the Bible, however, we’d know that he is the same man who had been guilty of murdering the husband of the woman he coveted to be his own.

How could it be? Considering the gravity of his sins, how could he be near God’s heart?

Then I saw the image of the Divine Mercy, the image of Jesus pointing towards His heart that had been pierced for our sake. That same heart from which the fountain of Infinite Mercy flows.

And then I realized something. David can be the man after God’s own heart not because of his perfection but because of his humility. After his great fall, he sincerely repented from his sins and he sought the mercy of God. He did not doubt His goodness. He continued to believe that despite all of his sins, God can still forgive him.

David found comfort in God’s heart. He found solace in His Infinite Mercy.

Other people may have been more righteous in following God’s laws. But in the end, if we do not recognize that all goodness comes from God, we’d never realize the depths of His mercy for us.

King David saw the truth about himself. But he never lost sight of God’s love. Instead of turning away, he drew near. Instead of losing hope, he trusted the heart of God.

Have you ever experienced those times when no matter how hard you prayed, there was no answer to your prayer?

It’s one of the most difficult times you’d ever have.

Most of the time, we can resort to either despair or stubbornness. It’s either we lose all hope or we try to force a miracle into happening.

What we forget is that there is another way.

When there is no answer, we can respect the silence of God.

We don’t need to exhaust ourselves as though the answer to our prayer depends upon our strength alone.

We can instead let things be. We can instead accept that by ourselves, we can do nothing.

We can be still, and we can be still in faith.

Yes, faith that believes in God’s mercy and love. Faith that trusts His wisdom and His power.

We can have this steadfast and silent faith as we wait.

When there is no answer, let us be patient still for God’s reply.

Does He not hear the cries of His children? Will He not come for His little ones?

Our faith may be little, but if we keep it and if we continue to trust, this faith may yet be all we need to move the mountains standing in our way.

“For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” – Matthew 17:20, WEBBE

“Lead me, O God, along whatever roads You please; I have placed all my trust in Your will which is, for me, love and mercy itself. Bid me to stay in this convent, I will stay; bid me to undertake the work, I will undertake it; leave me in uncertainty about the work until I die, be blessed; give me death when, humanly speaking, my life seems particularly necessary, be blessed. Should You take me in my youth, be blessed; should You let me live to a ripe old age, be blessed. Should You give me health and strength, be blessed; should You confine me to a bed of pain for my whole life, be blessed. Should you give only failures and disappointments in life, be blessed. Should You allow my purest intentions to be condemned, be blessed. Should You enlighten my mind, be blessed. Should You leave me in darkness and all kinds of (24) torments, be blessed. From this moment on, I live in the deepest peace, because the Lord Himself is carrying me in the hollow of His hand. He, Lord of unfathomable mercy, knows that I desire Him alone in all things, always and everywhere.” – St. Faustina, Divine Mercy In My Soul 1264