Quest-(ion)-ing for Answers

May 9 Friday of the 3rd week of Easter: 

A thought for those who want to bear prophetic witness through lifestyle

Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 117:1,2; John 6:52-59

“…that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit…” Act 9:17

Before Saul (Paul) was struck blind, he thought he could see. Big mistake. Jesus showed him he was blind by asking, “Why are you persecuting me?…” If Saul couldn’t see Christ in the Christians, he wasn’t seeing clearly. Jesus blinded him physically to teach him he was spiritually blind unless he saw by the light of the Holy Spirit.

It is a blessing to know we don’t see clearly. Jesus said to the Pharisees, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind” (John 9:39). Through the “prophets” Jesus keeps enlightening those who are open because they know they don’t see everything, and exposing the blindness of those who think they know it all.

Pope Francis wrote in his book On Heaven and Earth: “My hope in God is in the quest, in allowing myself to search… The great leaders of the people of God were men who left room for doubt….”

Faith that questions opens us to the living God, whose truth is infinite. Faith without questions encloses us in the narrowness of our own minds. This holds for unbelievers too. Someone said, “For an agnostic, a doubt would be a mystical experience!”

PRAY: “Lord, by the light of the Holy Spirit, instruct the hearts of those who believe.”

PRACTICE: Keep questing by questioning.