Covid-19 cannot make us waiver in our Faith

For believers, people with faith in the unseen, like almost all Filipinos, a human being lives in, and with, two realities: the temporal or transitory realities and the eternal realities. Of the first we are easily aware; of the second, we are not. We can also say, the first reality is visible, tangible, and audible; its opposite would be invisible, intangible and inaudible. St. Paul calls this dual situation “inner” and “outer” human reality.

We find this in Second Corinthians, chapter four, verse sixteen to seventeen: “That is why we do not waiver; indeed, though this outer human nature of ours may be falling into decay, at the same time our inner human nature is renewed day by day. The temporary, light burden of our hardships, is earning us for ever an utterly incomparable, eternal weight of glory, since what we aim for is not visible but invisible. Visible things are transitory, but invisible things eternal.” (Jerusalem Bible)

The Jerome Biblical Commentary thinks that when the “inner man” is strong in his faith it is because it is being renewed “day by day”. As a result the inner renewal strengthens, “does not waiver”, the outer nature, the “outer man”, who is undergoing all kinds of suffering caused by Covid-19.