Reflection April 10th 2016
In today’s Gospel, we meet Jesus after he just fed the five thousand and His disciples saw Him walking on the sea.
For Jesus walking on water is a matter of traveling it’s not so much the issue of His divinity, He has already done that in expressing the “Bread of Life” discourse we heard about with the multiplication of the loaves and fish.
Here is the point Jesus makes very quickly
“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.”
The people were just accused of freeloading a meal. Most of the followers were not used to having so much food that it was left over, and to apply the Divine message to the miracle was a bit overwhelming so they ask Him;
“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”
There is no mention of the need to feed the hungry or help the poor, widowed, or orphans, that would be too limited, so He asks then to peer deeper; and there is a simple recipe that is required that accomplishes the works of God; and that is to believe in the one He sent.
Jesus was asking them to examine their movements and examine how they treat the people that are marginalized such as the lepers of the day.
How is it that we can stand together and give all glory and praise to a homeless man on Sunday and pass by one, hurriedly, any other time of the week and not see Jesus? The way I treat my brothers and sisters is the way that I treat Jesus.
Be Jesus for all that you meet and may the gifts and fruits of His spirit be with us.
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