Trust in God still
Trust in God still
It’s the word still that catches the eye. Still hints that our world abounds with conflict and division, with repeated cases of injustice, discrimination and intolerance. Faced with this, it can be increasingly hard to trust anyone or anything. Still asks us to cling on.
It reminds us that in the end, all will be well. Yes, He will come back. Everyone will see him – you will, I will. It means the dead will push back the dirt of the earth and break the surface of the sea. Numberless generations will behold their God.
But still means more. It speaks of the heavenly reassurance to earthly disciples. Jesus must have wondered at times at his choice of apostles. Think of the endless hours of explanation he could have saved himself had he chosen more brilliant men.
And yet because Thomas needed reassurance we have Christ’s beautiful words, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ Because Philip needs to have things spelled out, Christ reminds that ‘whoever has seen me has seen the Father’.
For the cream of the crop, these apostles were a bit thick: sceptical Thomas, obtuse Philip, hot-headed Peter. And yet, they found favour with Christ. Can we, in all our muddled lives, not hope for as much?
‘You are a chosen race, a holy nation, a people set apart…’ (From today’s Second reading)