In several people have asked me the interpretation of supernatural signs in one's life. Do not exclude that there are! St. Paul says, "Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything and hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil "(1Ts5 0.19 to 22).
signs exist and the Spirit blows where it wants! But I think the supernatural needs to give a proper weight. Today we try something very emotionally upsetting, just like in Jesus' time ... losing sight of the everyday life taught from the time of Jesus of Nazareth and his men to be fully immersed in his own time and in human relations.
Many scholars in the field say that the mystic apparitions, and what touches or touches our senses, are actually very easy to mimic them by the devil and give those in need of such events in a particular historical moment of salvation, so the frame between the lowest level of detection. A living faith and fervent does not need signs. Who loves does not need signs. Even between two lovers definitely a rose or a sign of affection like, but does not increase the love and the certainty of the same if it is ingrained.
A child born which is visible through the similarity with parents queell'immagine and likeness that God always gives us, perhaps it is not a sign? A sunset full of poetry and full of mystery, perhaps it can not lead us to think how big can be the one who created all this? The infinite number of transactions that are done at every moment in our body, the breath we have, the beating of the heart, the microcosm and the macrocosm ... well designed ... all we can perceive in and out of us now ... not enough to believe? Chiara Amirante often says that it takes more faith to believe that not to believe, adding that whoever does not believe is based on theory, on philosophical ideas with claim autoaffermaizone, who believes instead is based on experience, albeit personal, living and authentic!
The sun rises in the morning probably is not a sign of God's Love? I see enough to feel a warm heart, I do not feel more heat if it saw a sudden rise to two ... a miracle in Fatima only signed with the signature of Heaven appearances in front of millions of people and the event was visible until 80km away. It was thus not a phenomenon of mass suggestion. Yet, despite the press of both religious and atheist, documents the event, did not lead to a conversion of the masses. We could say the same for many other miracles, as the Resurrection of Lazarus, or even, with all due differences, Christ! The sign is such if it is received from the heart ... otherwise it is sterile.
We must not look for signs of risk or claim groped God! If there's sure to be interpreted. If they were signs of the devil, as evidence, harassment or supernatural events to instill fear, my first advice is to just shrug and continue to pray and live for the glory of God pointing to holiness. The devil is always more important than we give him. If, however, come from God, then be subjected to those who follow us spiritually and can advise on. If there's
may be because our faith needs it and is dying, or because we have evidence and they can have great force, or for a specific vocation or ongoing discernment. The signs are always to give strength and above all to awaken and strengthen the faith and hope, which must be translated into love of life. Think of St. Paul who lives the experience of being overwhelmed by the light that blinds him and hear him, "Who are you, Lord?". And he said: "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting" (At9, 5). Paul himself will then really called to be crucified, not only dying for Christ, but with the stigma as a spiritual tells us in his letter Galatians, suffering greatly for the Gospel who is called to preach. In fact, Paul's encounter with the Risen Christ event culminates with the prayer of Ananias to him, when the scales fall from his eyes and Jesus showed him what he had to suffer for His name "(At9, 16).
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