1 John 3:7-10 / John 1:35-42
Some questions are really difficult to answer. Especially when they are thrown at you at unexpected moment from someone you don't really know.
You might just find your mind going blank or maybe crashing because there may be so many answers to that question.
In the gospel, we heard that after John the Baptist pointed out to his two disciples the Lamb of God, they then followed Him.
Then Jesus turned round, saw them following Him and said, "What do you want?"
We can assume that the two disciples were stumped! What a direct and intrusive question, and besides they themselves do not really know what they want.
Yet their reply "Where do you live?", which may sound awkward, nevertheless said much about what they wanted.
They wanted to know who Jesus is, how He lived, what He was all about. Hence Jesus simply replied, "Come and see."
So if Jesus were to ask us, "What do you want?", would we be able to give a sensible and meaningful reply?
And if we are still wondering what to say, then the 1st reading tells us what we should be looking for.
We should be desiring to live a holy life because God is holy and we want to be His children.
To sin is to be belonged to the devil and become his evil children.
Yet to be holy and to be children of God means this - to love God and to love neighbour. That is what God wants of us and may that be what we truly want too.