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Trust vs. Doubt: The Two Kinds of Believers
Is Christianity Dead? Long Live Christianity
All in — or not? 100 percent or 99? Those are the two kinds of believers.
“If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live,” Fulton Sheen warned.
We all believe something, but believers come in two types: They either know or have doubts about beliefs: trust or doubt.
The Last Mass Media Message Written From Jesus Arrived in 1931
On February 22, 1931, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska heard Jesus Christ tell her to paint the Image of Divine Mercy with a three-word message he wanted to share with the world, “Jezu Ufam Tobie.”
That message for our times (Faustina would be canonized as the first saint of the 21st century in 2000) translates into English as “Jesus, I trust in you.”
So it’s a concise, simple message for our age of short attention spans: Trust Jesus. But typically, we forget to do so, which is the key difference between completely believing and trusting until we are driven to distraction.
My only true poem: When you find the one, you know. The slightest doubt is deadly, like cancer in a body or rust on a car.
