Trust Unreservedly That You Are Loved
The
word faith is often understood as accepting something you can’t
understand. People often say: “Such and such can’t be explained, you
simply have to believe it.” However, when Jesus talks about faith, he
means first of all to trust unreservedly that you are loved, so that you
can abandon every false way of obtaining love. That’s why Jesus tells
Nicodemus that, through faith in the descending love of God, we will be
set free from anxiety and violence and will find eternal life. It’s a
question here of trusting in God’s love. The Greek word for faith is pistis,
which means, literally, “trust.” Whenever Jesus says to people he has
healed: “Your faith has saved you,” he is saying that they have found
new life because they have surrendered in complete trust to the love of
God revealed in him.
Henri Nouwen
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