Editor:
Our faith is meant to grow and to mature.
There are people who are well educated, yet their faith is still at Grade 1 level and they don't find meaning in the world.
They have probably never read the scripture, never got to know God, never really got to know the beautiful person that he is, and so it is said, in the minds of many, they look at God a little suspiciously.
To them, he's like the judge or the very strict father who doesn't want them to have fun.
In one form or another, our understanding of faith as humans, is to see that we did it all ourselves or if I can make it this far in life I can go further on, or that it is a supernatural virtue infused in the soul.
It's as if this virtue is a power, an ability.
For example, if we didn't have legs, we wouldn't be able to walk.
If we didn't have eyes, we wouldn't be able to see, without faith, we are not able to believe in the things that are mysteries and that are beyond our capacity to comprehend.
We can't understand the mysteries of faith, but they should make sense.
As we grow into adulthood, we need to penetrate them, to understand more, so that it becomes more and more credible.
"Faith is a gift from God and grows through prayer, as does hope and love and those are the tree main virtues of the interior of life."
At the same time it is important to gain self knowledge as part of spiritual growth.
To know yourself and believe in yourself means you can know and believe in God.
Fill yourselves first with the three virtues and then you will be able to give to others. "Knowledge of yourself produces humility, and knowledge of God produces love."
"Cast all your care upon him, for he careth for you," 1:Peter 5:7.
Fabian Tom