Main news for 1 February 2020

The author of the epistle calls faith "the basis of our hopes and the invisible foundation of what is manifested", calling the "manifesting" what formerly remaining invisible, now reveals itself. Of course if he understood by faith a certain theological concept or even just an ideology, this phrase would have sounded mysteriously. But, according to the context, the author of the epistle understands by faith, above all, an unconditional faithfulness to God and the alliance once concluded with Him. With such understanding of faith several things become more comprehensible.

Certainly, if we based our hopes only on something human, even if it is a deep faith, these hopes would always be suspended in the air: for the course of the history would hardly change radically because of our faith, even the deepest, and the Kingdom wouldn’t come nearer us, even for an iota. It is a different thing, faithfulness towards the relations with the One, on Whom depend and the earthly history, and the Kingdom. Such faithfulness becomes indeed the pledge of the fact that all which was promised to us by God, everything we hope on, from His words, will really become one day a reality of life.

And will not just become in the future, but already becomes: because faithfulness to God also means participating in the realization of His plans, these same plans, with which are connected the promises made by Him. Our faithfulness becomes His instrument, and then turns out that God's formerly invisible projects come true and become visible, and this also thanks to our faithfulness. And this faithfulness opens to us the way to the Kingdom, becoming the pledge of the realization of our main hope.