Acts 17:15, 22 - 18:1 / John 16:12-15
If anyone were to ask us to give a reason for the hope and faith that we have in God, then we should be ready to give an answer, and to give it with gentleness and respect (cf 1 Peter 3:15)
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to
the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire
to know the truth—in a word, to know Himself—so that, by knowing
and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about
themselves.
Yet, given all the reasons, there must also be this leap of faith, which is a leap into mystery, a leap from what is revealed into what is going to be revealed.
In the 1st reading, St. Paul was speaking to the men of Athens, who prided themselves as philosophers.
All went well, logically and rationally, until when St. Paul talked about God raising Jesus from the dead.
Some of them laughed, and yet some of them contemplated on what St. Paul said.
Essentially it is about the understanding of truth. It takes humility to say that we don't understand the whole truth, because truth is not just a principle but truth is God Himself.
Hence it is important that we don't brush off or reject certain experiences, whether be it ours or that of others, just because we can't find an explanation for it.
There are many things that we do not know about ourselves and about God. We need not have all the answers to things that we don't understand at the moment.
God will reveal to us, slowly and surely. We need to make that leap of faith in prayer as we bring all our questions of life before God, and we must let the Holy Spirit lead us slowly to the truth.