Who do we follow?

 

"Jesus said: My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, 

my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish 

leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."

John 18:36

Jesus is challenged by Pilate in regard to his use of the word

"kingdom", interpreted by Pilate as if Jesus is declaring himself 

to be a wordly king, that being the only concept of kingship

he understood. 

But Jesus said that He came into the world to testify to the Truth,

and that everyone on the side of truth listens to Him.

We then have Pilate asking the famous question;

"what is the truth,"

and we know that what followed is that he didn't want to be 

bothered by this case anymore, he himself was not Jewish, 

his role was to govern this part of the Roman Empire.

He couldn't find any fault with Jesus, but as he felt the pressure 

to make a descision, he caved in, he washed 

his hands off the entire affaire and let them decide what to do 

with Jesus, and they wanted Jesus dead.

It is surprising how little discernment there often is among 

many Catholics in regard to wordly matters.

The power of the world and the power of God are  

opposing each other, 

they can not be "reconciled", 

no compromise can be made, 

they can only be managed by us as best we can, and that is 

sometimes like a walk on a tightrope.

We should be able to distinguish between the two.

For the moment we live in this world, but we are not supposed 

to live according to the world. 

One thing is certain; Christians who truly live according to the 

Word of God is hated by the world.

They are sure to be ridiculed, misunderstood and rejected.

We must be awake, to be able to capture nuances in what 

is being said, and to reflect.

It is frightening for example to see Catholics having full confidence 

in the Government, without any discernment, there seems to be the 

automatic assumption that whatever comes from the governement

must be more or less morally sound, because it is the government. 

Such a wrong assumption, forgetting that there is pressure on the 

government. 

We must be obedient to God, and at the same time we should not

break any civil law. This is often a tight rope walk; the right line.

Many examples comes to mind: 

The corona vaccine being the most recent; an admittedly 

experimental vaccine where the risks, evalued objectivly, 

without the elements of pressure and fear, seemed too high

in proportion to the relative minor discomfort of the corona flu 

virus.

People die every day, sometimes it can be just a flu that kills an 

already weak and fragile body, but it was repeated again and

again that it was a flu, which any normal immune system can

deal with. 

Yet, because of the governement and the hand-in-hand media

blew it up out of all proportion, leading a fear campaign, many

Catholics got themselves injected with an experimental vaccine 

that had unknown side effects, despite many leading experts in 

the field of immunology and vaccines warning against it, stating

that it will it will cause heart problems and cancer.

Reflect on the moral aspect; considering the fact that the 

vaccines are made from stem-cells of aborted babies, taken when 

the babies are still alive, as many aborted babies stays alive for a 

a certain period of time after having being extracted from their 

mother's body.

The forces of this world are diabolic, if we are not aware

of this fact, we will fall victim to it.  

In this case, you might have thought that common sense and prudence; 

erring on the side of caution, would have prevailed.

But no; a people who voted for abortion 

(because "all the other countries are doing it" being the argument),

who voted for same sex "marriage" (the only country who 

actually had a referendum on it, the governement of other countries 

simply just brought it into law),

do not have a perspective of common sense and personal 

reasoning, facts are discarded; they just go with the crowd, 

the same crowd that demanded the crucifixion of Jesus.

Jesus came to testify to the truth, and Pilate famously answered;

"what is truth?"

Today people talk about "my truth" and "your truth", everybody

"their own truth", and this is also prevalent in the Church today.

Ever since the Second Vatican Council, which aimed for spiritual 

renewal in the Church, the exact opposite has occured, and 

quite logically so;

in proportion to the Church's "opening up to the world" and 

aligning herself with the world, the objective Truth of which 

the Catholic Church is guardian, has been obscured, 

truth has become relative and subjective.

Never to forget that the Church is made up of sinful and weak 

men and women, 

who regularly gets lost and goes away from the Truth. 

The Catholic Church is Holy, because Jesus Christ, who is God,

is her Head, we her members; all faithful, including Priests, Bishops, 

Cardinals, Popes, are all sinners. 

"Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save".

Psalm 146;3

 

"Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is 

in the Lord their God"

Psalm 146;5