#examen

Yes, it's a natural instinct to say, "We few insiders, we're the ones in the country club, and everybody else is excluded. In fact, that makes me feel more special, if I see that the mass of people is excluded." But maybe it doesn't work that way. Maybe God's generosity and God's mercy extend way beyond our little cramped sense of what's possible. I can't help but think, everybody (and look at this online if you doubt me, read a lot these reactions) that those who are calling for only a tiny handful who are saved —and, you know, to be fair, that was the view of Saint Augustine, that there's a massa damnata, there's a "damned mass," the vast majority of the human race is damned and only a tiny handful are saved— but I can't help but think that those who are clinging to that view are in the same spiritual space as this man who is interrogating Jesus. And the Lord is saying, "Don't play that game. Rather, let your hope expand to be as great as the mercy of God." Maybe all sorts of people that you consider just hopeless outsiders —they're just beyond the pale, there's no way, there's no way, they could ever be saved— maybe be surprised at how generous God is in His mercy. And perhaps our hope should correspond to the capaciousness of that mercy. I think, everybody, at the end of the day, perhaps that's the spiritual place into which the Lord is inviting us.

De verdad que ya no quiero más exámenes.