Ridiculing Christ

Several days ago, a famous comedian, who had rejected and ridiculed God, learned the truth.

One can only hope that, by the grace of God, he repented and opened himself to God’s forgiveness in the moments before his death.

In today’s Gospel (Matthew 9:18-26) a crowd of people ridicule Christ to his face.

Then they learned the truth: the one they had ridiculed was the Holy One, with power over life and death.

You and I may not be the sort to ridicule Christ, certainly not to his face (even though we might have once or twice smiled or even laughed with those who do).

But how often do we silently ridicule Christ by our cowardly acquiescence to this world’s insults against him, against the goodness of his plan in creation, and against his truth?

May we hear Christ words spoken to us:

Courage...!
Your faith has saved you.