Tuesday 8 April 2025
Numbers 21:4-9. O Lord hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you – Ps 101(102):2-3, 16-21. John 8:21-30.
Faith lets us see and understand
It’s strange. One of the fundamental considerations in media and communication is knowing and connecting with your audience, but Jesus often seemed indifferent to whether people actually understood him. Here, he speaks in riddles, hinting at his death in terms the crowd can’t grasp. And unlike some parables, Jesus wasn’t aiming to meet people where they were by diluting his message into something easy. Instead, he called them to rise and see things through a completely different lens. It’s a reminder that faith isn’t about perfect comprehension or clarity, but about trust. Trust in the one who sometimes speaks in riddles, who invites us into a mystery that stretches beyond understanding, in the hope that what seems obscure now might eventually illuminate everything. Some didn’t get it then. But some of them – maybe many – would eventually see, just as we’re called to see, not with the eyes of the world, but with the vision that only faith can give.
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