Fr. Sanctus Mario
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If We Truly Know God, We will do These. Friday of the 4th Week of Lent

Breakfast with the Word: Friday of the 4th Week of Lent

John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

 

If We Truly Know God, We will do These

 

As the season of lent gradually is coming to the end, the readings continue to show us what happened towards the end of Jesus’ public ministry and the reason the Jews are determined to eliminate Him. 

 

 

In today’s gospel, John tells us that the Jews were out and eager to kill Him. Because of this, Jesus stayed more in Galilee. But as the Jewish feast of the tabernacle draws near, He later went up to Jerusalem but privately without drawing more attention.

 

 

 Probably, He went alone without His disciples. Yet when the people in Jerusalem saw Him, they said to themselves, “Is this not the man the Jews want to kill? Yet he is speaking and walking freely”. 

 

They immediately objected that He would not be the Christ because it is written that when Christ comes, no one will know where He comes from. But they know where Jesus comes from.

 

Therefore, these people who saw Jesus by saying this, show that the people were still expecting another Messiah despite the presence of Jesus. 

 

Therefore, they do not know who Jesus is. 

Their reason is only that they know His background and family. They know where He was born but it was written that no one would know where Christ would come from. 

 

 

 Now because they do not know Jesus, they did not take Him seriously. They see Him as someone ordinary. Because they did not know who Jesus was, they spoke ill of Him. 

The same is true of us. When we do not truly understand or know who Jesus is, we may only be going to church but do it for the sake that others are doing it.

 

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If We do Not Truly know God.

 

 If we do not truly know God, we will even talk ill of Him when we encounter problems or when we do not understand what He is doing in our lives.

 

 Just as the people are doing today because they do not truly know who Jesus is. If we do not know and understand God truly, our faith will be shallow. One who truly knows and understands His God will always stay faithful even when He does not understand what God is doing.

 

 

 The Jews were not seeing the type of messiah they expect in Jesus and that is why they rejected Him.

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Also, we tend to deject and abandon our faith when we are not seeing the type of God that we want. You want a God that does signs and wonders but instead of that, God comes with challenges.

 

 

 You want God that will uplift you and fulfil whatever you ask in prayer but instead of that, God comes in another way of answering the prayers the way He wants. Then, because of that, you lose faith in Him. 

 

If we truly know God, we will trust Him at all times. Then we will constantly love to listen and obey His words.

 

If we truly know God, we will take Him seriously unlike what the Jews did today. If we truly know God, we will never take God as secondary or ordinary. We will take God as the first and the last, the beginning and our end. If we truly know God, we will take His words seriously and live our lives for Him.

 

If we truly know God, we will trust His ever loving and merciful heart. We will know that He is not heart hardened. We will constantly long to communicate with Him in prayer. 

 

God desires that We Know Him.

 

In today’s gospel, Jesus continues to teach the people that He is not ordinary. He tries to let them know that He comes from the Father.

 

He says to them ‘there is one who sent me and I come from Him, and you do not know Him, but I know Him because I have come from Him and it was He who sent me.’ Yet the people wanted to arrest Him. 

 

In essence, We will see in this statement someone who desires that they know Him but they have already hardened their hearts to Jesus. That is why they seek to arrest Jesus.

 

Sometimes when we harden our hearts or when we already made up our hearts to do evil, it is very hard to stop, despite the preaching we hear. The reason for this is that we are yet to know and understand who God is. 

 

When we know how He loves us, we would not love to abandon Him. If we truly know God, we would not like to continually sin against Him. We would always love to come to His presence.

 

 If we truly know God, praying to Him then should not be a burden. But today, we only go to church but harden our hearts to God’s voice, hence evil continues to increase in the land. When problems come, we are the first to lose faith. We have to know that God has His appointed time as we see in today’s gospel.

 

 

His Time had not yet come.

 

The people would have arrested Jesus today but His time had not yet come no one laid a hand on himJohn tells us that Jesus’ time “had not yet come” (John 7:30).

 

Here, He is referring to the hour of the Cross, to the precise and precious time of Christ’s submission for the sins of the entire Humankind. His time has not yet come, but it is getting very close.

 

It will be at Calvary when our Lord will bring to its end His Celestial Father’s will. At the hour He will accomplish His mission. Christ continuously spoke many times about this definite and determining hour (Mt 26:45; Mk 14:35; Lk 22:53; Jn 7:30; 12:27; 17:1). 

 

Then, before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. 

So, before this hour the Jews tried everything either to arrest Him or kill Him but couldn’t, Until the appointed time. 

The point we are trying to make here is that God has His way of doing things. We believe that whatever is not according to His plan will never come to pass. 

 

 

In life never think that every hope of survival is lost. We may be passing a lot of challenges and we tend to lose faith. Let us never think God has abandoned His creatures. Everything happens better and perfectly at His appointed time. We keep hoping and believing in Him.  

 

 

The type of Messiah that the Jews are expecting makes them not know and understand that Jesus is the Messiah. They are unable to welcome Him. Therefore, when what we expect from God does not come the way we want, it is not a reason to lose hope or lose our faith in God.

 

 In His appointed time, He will perfect His will. Let us trust whatever God is doing, for the fact, God is the one in charge.

 

Therefore, if we truly know God, we will trust whatever that He does, both the ones we understand and the ones we do not understand. 

 

 

May God bless you, dearest, protect your going in and coming out. May He continues to be with us even in the times difficulties Amen

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34 Comments
  1. Ohachosim Chinyere R. says

    amen.

    God bless you more.

  2. Cordelia Agudosi says

    Amen

  3. Margaret Awum says

    Amen 🙏

  4. Okonkwo onyinye says

    AMEN

  5. Onyekonwu Ngozi says

    Amennnoooo! Thank you Daddy Jesus for loving and caring for me. Father increase my little faith and hope in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.

  6. Boitumelo Malebatsane says

    In the name of jesus amen🙏🏻

  7. Eze Juliana Nkechi says

    Amen

  8. Onyinyechi Emeka-Ude says

    May I know you more with every passing day of my life Oh Lord!

  9. Agina Uchenna says

    Amen

  10. Enibe Jacinta Amara says

    Amen. Dear Lord Jesus I believe in you help my unbelieve.

  11. Odoh Nneka says

    Amen, God bless you padre

  12. Grace Uba says

    Amen

  13. Oby Okpalaeke says

    Amen 🙏

  14. Beatrice Solomon says

    Amen

  15. Dr Nick Onyia says

    Amen and amen 🙏 Thanks fr. and remain richly blessed.

  16. Ifesinachi Okeke says

    Amen 🙏

  17. AWUZIE INNOCENT S. says

    Amen

  18. Regina Mobu says

    Amen! Thank you father for your encouragement, it’s really helpful.

  19. Okeke Juliet Nneka says

    Amen 🙏.

  20. Vivian Elochukwu says

    Amen and Amen

  21. Angela Madu says

    Amen

  22. Mailoushi James says

    Amen remain blessed Bro to the glory of God’s name, Amen

  23. Eunice okeyo says

    AMEN 🙏

  24. Mariajacinta Ivoke says

    Amen

  25. Nwatu Nneka P says

    Amen, thank you JESUS CHRIST

  26. Jane chuks says

    AMEN 🙌

  27. Mary Obiozor says

    Amen

  28. Grace Yina says

    Amen, Lord help us to trust in You always even in most difficult and hopeless situations. Let us realise that you are in charge, Amen

  29. Anidiobi Sylvia Ngozi says

    Amen

  30. Ndukwe Amanda says

    Amen Fr

  31. Ugwu Josephine Nnenna. says

    Amen. Thank you.

  32. Bibiana Uche Unachukwu and family says

    Amen

  33. Awodike Florence says

    May I never abandon you my savior even in times of difficulties…
    Remain Blessed Padre

  34. Awodike Florence says

    May I always seek you Lord,even in times of difficulties…
    Remain Blessed Padre

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