MEETING JESUS

The first time I met Jesus is through an anime show titled "Flying House." It amazed me how modern kids were transported through a time machine in a form of a flying house. They time-travelled from the present to the time of Jesus. They saw Jesus face to face and learned His teachings first hand. They witnessed His miracles with their naked eyes. Young as I was, it seemed to me so real, though I was just in front of a TV screen, as if I too time traveled; I too met Jesus for real. 

God reveals Himself to us in ordinary things, so much so that even unbelievers can see Him through ordinary things in our life. St. Thomas Aquinas enumerated to us five ways to prove the existence of God by merely observing the wonders around us. God is the unmoved mover of all things that move. God is the uncaused cause of all causes. God is necessary being essential for the contingent ones. God is the Supreme governor who put things in order. God is the most beautiful being and source of all beauty in this world. Don't tell me you cannot recognize God. Even evil spirits can recognize Him (Mark 3:7-12) as the Son of God. Are you worse than evil spirits?

What disables us to see Jesus or to experience God? Sin separates us from God. Sin is a cloud that blurs our view of God. Our offenses to God distance us from Him. If only we seek and approach Him despite the blindness caused by sin, we can embrace Jesus, for He constantly approaches us whenever we fall from the snares of sin. If we desire to see Him, we will indeed see Him, for He is greater than our sins.    

The Good News is that God revealed Himself through Jesus Christ in a more familiar way to us: through concrete things, through flesh and blood, through the sacraments especially in the Eucharist. Through Christ, we have a God whom we can hear, see, touch and taste. Through Christ, God became sensible to us. But all these things are vividly visible in the eyes of a faithful one. Have you met Him?