Ancient wisdom to underlie modern faith

The nature of the Divine revealed in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today is that the relationship requires faith for growth and development of intimacy. The faith of the personages of the Hebrew Scripture, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was a trust in God who asked them to do difficult tasks. This biblical faith was a trust that God would provide and that any request that was understood to have come from God was acted upon. The hope is that this not be dismissed as the “old time religion”. In our time the tendency is to ask “What’s in it for me? (WIIFM?) The clamour of people for signs and miracles after which belief and faith will abound is getting the cart before the horse. The faith and trust which permits transcendent action of the Divine precedes the sign, work or miracle. The miracles are always trumped by the compassion, empathy and forgiveness of the Divine and the believers who are seeking the intimacy offered by the Divine Presence. The believer attempts to replace WIIFM with WWJD (What would Jesus do?).(Oremus link)