Jesus today

 

“LORD, THAT I MAY SEE.”

A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF THE DAY.

Gospel

Mark 3:7-12

He warned them not to make him known as the Son of God

1.      Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside,

2.      and great crowds from Galilee followed him.

3.      From Judaea, Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania and the region of Tyre and Sidon,

4.      great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him.

5.      And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,

6.      to keep him from being crushed.

7.      For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him.

8.      And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, would fall down before him

9.      and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!’ But he warned them strongly not to make him known.

 

In Jesus God has broken into this world. Jesus is the ambassador of the Kingdom of God. Which the Father will one day establish. In him, the Kingdom of God is making its appearance. He brings God’s joy, peace, love and through him God’s power flows like a river.

People flock to him to drink. He is the water of life.

I too should approach him. Every time I touch the host, I touch Jesus. It is not bread. ‘This is my Body given for you.’ He will do for me what he did for the people in Galilee.

But since I eat his Body and drink his Blood, I am to become him for others.

He should manifest himself through me as he did through his human body in Galilee. I too must become the source of joy, peace and love. God’s power to heal should flow through me.