Acts 13:44-52 / John 14:7-14
From the pictures taken from outer space, we know that Earth is a big blueish roundish mass.
It is in this Earth that all of us live and we are bound to this Earth for our existence.
Yet, despite the fact that we all live on this Earth, it seems that some want to push others out of this world.
These people do not seem to understand that they can only push others from one corner to the other but never out of this world.
That was what happened in the 1st reading. Some people, blinded by jealousy, plotted to drive Paul and Barnabas out of their city.
They were blinded to the extent that they could only drive Paul and Barnabas out of their city but they could never drive them out of this world.
They were also blinded to the fact that Paul and Barnabas were just ordinary human beings like themselves and yet they see them as threats that are to be eliminated and done away with.
In the gospel, Jesus told Philip and the disciples that to have seen Him is to have seen the Father.
And how do we see Jesus? We are all created in the image of God and when we look closely and deeply at each other, we will see the face of Jesus and eventually see the face of the Father.
We not only live in the one and only Earth, we even look alike and we even form the one unique species called the human race.
How else are we supposed to live but in peace and love! We don't need to go to outer space to realize that!