4 Sept 2015
Sometimes it’s like Jesus is speaking another language. The images he uses, the teachings he speaks,
the vision of the Kingdom he puts out there is so very different from what we’re
used to. To the 1st Century
Jews, what he was saying probably sounded totally “out there.” I imagine the Pharisees and scribes, and lots
of other good people just shook their heads and said, “What is he talking about?”
Of course, even after two thousand years, a lot of people in
the world (and even in the Church) still scratch their heads whenever the
Gospel message and the vision of Jesus is put out there. Even when St Paul mentions “invisible things,
thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers,” he’s trying to get us onto a
different plane, into a wider vision of the life Christ is drawing us into.
There’s more to Jesus than meets the eye. There’s more to our Catholic faith than we
think. And that’s why sometimes when the
depth of the Gospel is actually preached to us, it can feel like Jesus is just
speaking another language—and we want to say, “What is he talking about?”
But to our occasional confusion about our faith, Jesus asks
us to just stick with him. He’s trying
to introduce us to something new; a new way of life, a new way of faith and
values and practices, a new relationship with him and the Father and the Holy
Spirit. Sometimes it can seem like the
Word of God is trying to take us to a place we’re unfamiliar with . . . and
that’s about right.
All Jesus asks is that we trust him, and that we not get
overly comfortable with what we know about him and our faith. He always has a lot more to show us. There’s always more to see in the Kingdom of
God.
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