1 Tim 6:13-16 / Luke 8:4-15 (2023)
The retention power of the memory in people varies from one person to another.
But it can be quite amazing to see how much we can remember and yet how much we don't remember at the same time.
For example, can we remember anything from the gospel passage that we have just heard? And going back a bit further, can we remember anything from the 1st reading.
If we can't remember anything at all, then we need to reflect on why it is so. Is it because it is still early in the morning and hence we are not ready to remember anything? Or is it that our retention power is so little?
But as Jesus said in the gospel, "The mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to you, but for the rest there are only parables, so that: they may see but not perceive, listen but not understand.
But if we look and listen and remember nothing and there is no impression, then how are we to perceive and understand?
Yet, the mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to us already. But we must look and listen.
In the 1st reading, we heard that when Jesus spoke up as a witness for the truth before Pontius Pilate, Pilate do not know what the truth was.
Pilate saw and heard Jesus, but no impression was made on him and hence, nothing was revealed to him.
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to look beyond and to listen deeper. More so when what we see is stillness and all that we hear is silence, then let us know that God is present.