Today’s
Gospel Text: Now
Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done, and he was perplexed, because it
was said by some that John had been raised from the dead, 8 by some that Eli'jah had
appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen. 9 Herod said, "John I
beheaded; but who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he sought to
see him. Luke 9:7-9
Reflection: “Seeing
is believing” they say!
Sorry!
Did I say; “they say”, ‘they’ may have said it or it may be one individual who
may have said it but it is definitely practiced by almost all, sometime or the
other.We prefer to see in order to believe.
Surely,
one may say; “we have been given eyes to see and why should we not make use of
it to see and then believe.”
But
it is not always effective, we may see and yet not believe or we may see and
yet not understand, and what we have not understood and comprehended we may
still believe. Reflect on it and it is shockingly true!
In
the spiritual realm, here is one such example: We may see a miracle and
yet not believe it as one and begin to rationalize about it. We may see what is
presented as a miracle, and we may not comprehend it and yet we may still
believe that which was not a miracle, as a sure miracle. Why do you think fake god men flourish so easily with the fraudulent magic?
I am
sure all will agree with me on the above, but the greater truth is this: Even
if we know this truth, we would still want to see things in order to believe;
for such is the compulsion in order to believe.
Herod’s
attitude to Jesus, in the light of his action of beheading John the Baptist is
a similar one: What does he want to see in Jesus? Is he going to compare the
head of Jesus and John the Baptist and try and see if there is any similarity
in facial structures of the two?
He
is supposed to believe in Jesus, which means that he has to stop seeing as he
sees and see as Jesus wants us to see him. Which means; stop trusting self and
start trusting God!
If
we trust God and begin to see as Jesus wants us to see him, then we will never walk
in blunder on the eternal path of life; for Jesus is the way, the truth and the
life. Jn. 14: 6
Prayer: Lord, I
want to respond to your invitation to walk by faith and not by my sight.Help me always to believe in you.
DD = Dedicated
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